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Tuesday 6 October 2026

Review: Tom Cruise's Digger splits critics down the middle

Tom Cruise's Digger, in Australian cinemas since 1 October, sat at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes as of early Tuesday. Critics praise him but split on the satire.

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Tom Cruise's Digger is in cinemas now, and the critics can't agree on it. Alejandro G. Iñárritu's climate satire opened in Australia on Thursday 1 October and in the US and UK the next day. As of early Tuesday it sat at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, with 136 positive reviews and 131 negative ones out of 267.

Tom Cruise waves to fans on a red carpet at a film premiere, wearing a dark suit — Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0), cropped

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