Tom Cruise's New Climate Disaster Movie, Digger, Is a Disaster
By Peter Suderman · Oct 2, 2026, 11:17 AM CDT
Has there ever been a good movie about climate change? The Day After Tomorrow , from the filmmakers behind Independence Day , was hokey disaster schlock; Don't Look Up , from the director of T he Big Short , was a relentlessly cringey metaphor movie; the little-seen How To Blow Up a Pipeline was somewhat better, but its intendedly sympathetic tale of climate radicalism was an own goal that inadver
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