In what is shaping up to be possibly the most divisive release of the year, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film Digger has absolutely blown open the cinematic landscape. From its first teaser trailer featuring Tom Cruise in some heavy old age makeup, all the way up to the wide release a couple days ago, the film has certainly gotten audiences talking. In the harsh line that is being drawn between those who loved it and those who didn’t, I find myself firmly on the side of loved, as Digger is my favorite movie of the year.
The film follows Digger Rockwell, an eccentric and endlessly powerful oil baron dead set on positioning himself as humanity’s savior in the wake of a global disaster he created. Aside from that, I think it is a movie best experienced going in completely blind. The story takes some massive swings that are in incredibly gratifying and exciting experience in the theater.
For starters, I got to see the film in VistaVision, which was an absolute treat. For those who don’t know, VistaVision is a newly resurrected large film format that has begun to be used again, a notable example being last year’s best picture winner One Battle After Another. Seeing the film in this massive, gorgeous format was a true testament to how incredible the camera work and production design are. The film is shot by the incomparable Emmanuel Lubezki, who is hands down one of the greatest cinematographers in cinema history, and he once again does a phenomenal job here.
The other standout is Tom Cruise, who I think is in career best form. There is a thunderous grandiosity to the work he is doing here that engages in a careful waltz with this incredible vulnerability. He absolutely disappears into the character, at times being near unrecognizable between his voice, the makeup, and the absolute scene devouring nature of this character. There’s a scene towards the halfway mark of the movie that is possibly my favorite of the year. Cruise has this absolutely remarkable and terrifying sequence that is a potentially career defining moment. I’m all in on the best actor train for Cruise. He’s absolutely phenomenal in this movie, and the award is long overdue for his talents.
Digger is as important and urgent a film as you could ask for in these insane and surreal times we live in today. Instead of being a basic and predictable satire, it delves into something much deeper and much more frightening that deeply interrogates both the world we live in, as well as the way we process that world. There’s a choice that is made during the credits of the film that deeply affected me and left me feeling this deep sadness for the world as we know it today. Digger is revelatory, ambitious, frightening, and utterly captivating.
In what is easily my favorite film of the year so far, Iñárritu and Cruise craft both an unforgettable character and an unforgettable story that will leave you thinking long after the credits have finished rolling.
Digger: 5/5
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