Digging for magic words on climate change has even Tom Cruise rattled

The Irish Times · David Robbins · 2026-11-05 06:00 UTC

Star’s new movie is the latest to hit stony ground while tackling climate change

Digger, Tom Cruise’s new climate change movie, is set to go the way of all the other climate change movies: into oblivion.

It is already a failure in box office terms, set to lose €245m for Warner Bros. The critics mostly hated it too, dismissing it as crude, loud, and hectoring. So at first glance, Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film is a critical and financial disappointment.

Climate is a tough topic to sell to the movie criterati: Don’t Look Up was apparently too didactic and its satire too scattergun; An Inconvenient Truth was derided as a filmed PowerPoint presentation, while The Day After Tomorrow was dismissed as alarmist fantasy.

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