Is ‘Digger’ the Tom Cruise Movie We’ve Been Waiting For? Plus: Our Top 10 Tom Cruise Performances.
Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu's apocalyptic satire starring Tom Cruise, is not a masterpiece but a deliberately provocative and irritating film that polarizes through its layered storytelling and meta-theatrical structure. The hosts, Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins, grapple with its
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