Digger (2026)

What earned the score

• White Men as Ideological Villains

  The film’s framing casts white men as evil, making race and sex part of its ideological villain template rather than treating the antagonists as individuals.

• Climate Catastrophe as Anti-Oil Indictment

  The film links oil drilling and fossil-fuel dependence to environmental destruction and mass death, exposing an oil magnate’s greed while casting ordinary reliance on oil-enabled energy and living standards as culpable. Its climate-alarmist framing makes the attack on fossil fuels central to the film’s argument.

• Christian Nationalism as Gibberish Theater

  A pastor’s exaggerated prayer devolves into gibberish as the president and his advisers fret over profits rather than human life; the president dismisses the pastor as a clown, imagines himself as a Christ-like savior, and calls the Bible foreign to America. The scene casts politically entangled Christianity as jingoistic theater masking dangerous conduct.

• Oil Greed as Climate Catastrophe

  Digger’s reckless oil drilling triggers an explosion that detaches a Greenland ice shelf and threatens Europe with mass casualties. The disaster makes fossil-fuel extraction the cause of the film’s central catastrophe, using climate alarmism to indict corporate greed.

• American Exceptionalism Skewered

  The film’s satire targets American exceptionalism alongside corporate power and religious nationalism. The president’s insistence that Scripture is not American, paired with his self-aggrandizing Christ-like delusion, makes national pride part of the film’s indictment.

• God as Corporate Excuse

  Digger calls oil a gift from God and invokes Scripture to dismiss the suffering caused by his actions. Faith is depicted as a pretext for corporate recklessness and indifference to human life.

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  Prayer Reduced to Delusion

  A man prays for food supplies to be miraculously restored, appears to bless those around him, and is later revealed to be hallucinating because of his unstable mental state. The supposed miracle turns religious faith into a target of satirical disbelief.

Details

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.

Starring

Tom CruiseRiz AhmedJohn GoodmanSandra HüllerMichael Stuhlbarg

Director

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Writer

Alejandro G. IñárrituSabina BermanJez ButterworthAlexander DinelarisNicolás Giacobone

Genre

ComedyDrama

Release Date

Sep 28, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex None

  Brief sexual references and crude dialogue throughout.

  You can see Digger's back while he urinates; nothing graphic is shown.

  A man removes his pajamas after they are soiled by a cat (we see the man's bare chest, abdomen, back, buttock cleavage and legs).

• Violence Mild

  Digger has stitches in his finger and says that his cat bit him with its sharp tooth.

  Many people in an auditorium argue and fight, punching each other and throwing each other to the floor.

  Someone in an auditorium throws a shoe at a man speaking and hits him in the face (we see a bloody cut on his forehead).

  A man climbs on a table while speaking to a crowd of people and kicks someone in the face knocking them back into another person.

  A man hits another man in the face with a Bible and knocks him to the floor.

  A dead body is seen in a freezer.

  Many bodies covered with sheets are shown lined up on the ground. We also see several bodies around what had been a populated city.

• Profanity Severe

  The words "f**k" and "s**t" are used frequently alongside mild profanity.

  101 uses of f**k.

  1 use of c**t, used non-sexually.

  Someone uses a racial slur for Asians.

  Irreverent religious references.

  Moderate blasphemies: "godd**n", "Jesus" and "God"

  c**t is used.

• Drugs Mild

  Verbal reference to heroin addiction.

  A man smokes cigarettes in a few scenes.

  Alcohol and tobacco use; one brief heroine reference.

  Two men drink whiskey (or rum) in a cup.

• Frightening Scenes Mild

  The underlying sense of unease is amplified by references to natural disasters, cancer, and terminal illness which may upset sensitive viewers.

  The scene in the courtroom where Digger gives his speech results in a riot that is quite sudden and loud, especially in formats such as IMAX.

  A man vomits while watching a video feed of damage being caused in Europe.

  An undetailed scene of suicide occurs.

  The film has many instances of yelling and arguements, some of which could be upsetting to some viewers, given the bleak subject matter.

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