{
  "id": 10764051,
  "title": "Tom Cruise Bloviates His Way Through the Aggressively Unfunny Digger",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/tom-cruise-bloviates-his-way-through-the-aggressively-unfunny-digger",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-29T19:02:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Time",
    "slug": "time",
    "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/09/29/digger-review/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Tom Cruise stars in Digger, a film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, which is described as a \"pure, empty-headed trickery\" with \"nothing to say.\" The movie, which is \"thematically clumsy,\" revolves around Cruise's character, Digger Rockwell, a Texas oil tycoon who is obsessed with keeping his cat alive despite its animatronic nature. The film is \"pure, empty-headed trickery\" that \"comes off as liberalism's worst enemy.\" Cruise's performance is described as \"bloviating,\" and his character is \"swaggers, bellows and bloviates\" in his speech. The movie's environmental message is criticized for being overly simplistic and scolding. The play-within-a-movie conceit is seen as an attempt to showcase elaborate sets, but ultimately, it does not add much to the film. Digger's cinematography is praised by its director, Emmanuel Lubezki, who is known for his work on \"Birdman.\"",
  "summary": "Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest film has a million moving parks and nothing to say",
  "key_points": [
    "Tom Cruise stars in Digger, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.",
    "Character Digger Rockwell is a Texas oil tycoon obsessed with his animatronic cat.",
    "Cruise's performance is described as bloviating and overly simplistic."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}