Alejandro G. Iñárritu

One of the most talked-about movies of the year is a film about climate change. Digger, directed by four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, stars Tom Cruise in the role of Digger Rockwell, a Texas oil tycoon who finds out an environmental disaster is looming, due in large part to his relentless pursuit of oil, and has to face an angry tribunal of world leaders. 

Critics have called it everything from a masterpiece to a flop, with one even likening watching it to being stuck in a tuba for two hours because of all of the loud, chaotic scenes. But it’s clear Digger has started a conversation, and the cacophony, Iñárritu has said,  is meant to represent how overwhelming the issue of climate change really is. 

Iñárritu was inspired to make Digger a climate change movie after struggling to find ice in Argentina for snowy scenes in The Revenant (2016). He wanted to make a disaster movie that would, as he has said, show that “the disaster is us.”