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Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time

Arabika Newsroom Source: Guardian Culture
Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time

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The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DCDigger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop. It is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era.Digger Rockwell, the eponymous protagonist played by Tom Cruise, is a bluntly caricatured Texas oilman blase

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