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New Trump-era movie is mind-bending, pretentious and a total box office bomb
What happened
AlterNet reports that Digger, a $180 million climate-disaster film starring Tom Cruise, failed at the box office. The film depicts an oilman whose Greenland drilling triggers ecological catastrophe, then reveals that this narrative is a play performed in a future already devastated by those decisions.
The review praises the film’s climate politics, elaborate structure and visual ambition but argues that its slow pace, theatrical excess and fixation on elite depravity blunt its impact. It concludes that The Day After Tomorrow, a commercially successful 2004 disaster film, remains…
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