Review: Boldly Comic 'Digger' Shows Tom Cruise Is More than a Mere Action Hero

Boldly comic 'Digger' shows Tom Cruise is more than a mere action hero

Tom Cruise piles on prosthetics for Digger. It might be the best movie of the year

Tom Cruise is almost unrecognisable under piles of prosthetics as Digger Rockwell, but his performance isn't the most shocking aspect of the searing satire.

Review: Boldly comic 'Digger' shows Tom Cruise is more than a mere action hero

Tom Cruise goes for it in "Digger," a big, showy apocalypse comedy that matches and even one-ups the performer's outsize energy. After a decade of franchise fare, it's a reminder that Cruise is still one of our finest actors, and…

Digger tries to mock powerful older men – but can’t escape 64-year-old millionaire Tom Cruise

Civilisations are often remembered not for their politics or their leaders, but for the figures they worshipped. Ancient Greece is as known for Achilles and Odysseus as for its achievements in democracy and philosophy. Medieval England is remembered less for the Plantagenets than for the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood. The wild west has Davy Crockett, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Years from now, people may look back on the past 40 …

'Digger' Review: Tom Cruise Buries Himself in Latex and Chaos

‘Digger‘ arrives in theaters on October 2 as the first film Tom Cruise has made outside the ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Mission Impossible’ franchises since 2017. It is also Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s first English language feature since ‘The Revenant’, and Warner Bros. has sold it with a great deal of mystery. Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an...

'Digger' Review: Tom Cruise Buries Himself Alive and Somehow Keeps Shouting

Tom Cruise spends most of ‘Digger’ under heavy makeup, barely recognizable as Digger Rockwell, a Texas oilman whose fortune has convinced him that the rules of reality are optional. The film arrives from Warner Bros. in theaters on Friday, October 2, with Alejandro G. Iñárritu directing and sharing screenplay credit with Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone...