Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time

The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DC Digger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop.

It is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era. Digger Rockwell, the eponymous protagonist played by Tom Cruise, is a bluntly caricatured Texas oilman blase about the environmental ruin of his drilling, even as it…