Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Digger' – Tom Cruise stuck in postmodernist misfire

Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu teams up with Tom Cruise for 'Digger', one of the boldest and wildest films of 2026. It may also be one of this year's biggest misfires.

A billionaire narcissist’s hunger for power and proclivity for manipulating public narrative for personal gain threatens to unleash a worldwide disaster.

If you’re looking for escapism, Digger may not be the way to go. But that’s not the only reason you’ll want to stay away.

Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is an aging oil tycoon whose 38-year-old cat is circling the drain. But poor Maggie, who has somewhere between “two weeks and five minutes” left to live, will have to wait as her master's reckless drilling in Greenland has unleashed methane chaos. This results in a massive explosion and a renegade chunk of Arctic glacier to break free. They quickly name the glacier Judy. She’s five times the size of Washington D.C., and she’s headed straight for Europe.

“Let’s blow that frozen cunt up!” suggests one general to President Compton (John Goodman). But the typical US reaction – launch first ask questions later – won't work with Judy.

“We’re up against the reality of nature,” explains Digger’s top environmental scientist Dr. Ganesh (Riz Ahmed, Digger 's MVP and looking like he just wandered off a Wes Anderson set).

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