Digger (2026) review

Fuck Rotten Tomatoes. This is so good! If you still let one website decide whether a film is good or bad before forming your own opinion, you are a fucking sheep! Watch films and create your own opinion! This is absolutely worth a rewatch for me. Incredibly relevant in this time. One of the best films of 2026 for me. For now, this is a 4.5 star film for me, but I can already feel that a rewatch might push it all the way to 5 stars. This film really made me rack my brain over what it was trying to say, so let’s dig into it (pun intended!) This film spits facts and slaps you in the face. I can see why some critics might dislike how unsubtle the satire is, but in today’s age, I think it needs to be loud. The point of the film is maybe subtlety is exactly why art no longer works. In an age where people scroll past disasters, political scandals, climate warnings, and social issues every single day, maybe art needs to scream just to be noticed. And that becomes one of the most interesting questions the movie asks. Whether art and satire can actually change the world? Or whether people will simply consume them as entertainment, laugh at it, praise how accurate it is, then go outside and go about their lives and continue participating in the exact systems being criticized? Has satire become meaningless instead of treating it as a call to action? I like Digger’s monologue about AI usage, climate change, capitalism, oil, and energy. People can be hypocritical when criticizing these things. We criticize these systems while simultaneously depending on them. We complain about AI while using it. We criticize fossil fuels while living lifestyles completely dependent on energy consumption. We condemn capitalism while still participating in the convenience and consumption it provides. The film seems interested in that contradiction between wanting the world to change and refusing to surrender the comforts that help keep the current system alive. And that whole absurdity of knowing we are fucking things up while continuing to participate in it is where I started feeling pieces of Dr. Strangelove, Don’t Look Up, and Black Mirror all over the film. The Dr. Strangelove (1964) side comes from watching powerful people make decisions with potentially catastrophic consequences while bureaucracy, ego, and absurdity continue operating like everything is normal. Something world ending can still become another meeting, another negotiation, another political calculation. Don’t Look Up (2021) because government and capitalists can become more concerned about infrastructure, economics, and keeping the machine running than people’s actual survival, while scientists and warnings are brushed aside. Then there is the Black Mirror DNA. Technology, media, politics, and human weakness start feeding into one another until the satire stops feeling futuristic and starts feeling like something that could happen tomorrow. The film also briefly touches on the conflict between a biopic subject’s family and the director. Who actually controls the story? Is it the descendants who want to protect the legacy, or the creatives who want to interpret the person and tell the story their own way? That connects to another idea in the film. People in power reinvent history. Politics, media, and art all have the ability to shape the narrative depending on who gets to tell the story. I also think this is how capitalists who destroy the world might be depicted in the future, along with the people who took the warnings too lightly. Looking back, future generations might ask how people could see all the signs and still continue anyway. That is the terrifying consequence of human judgment. And maybe that is also why entertainment becomes so important in the film. People use entertainment to escape reality. We make light of history, disaster, and our current problems because, even for just a fraction of a second, it allows us to forget the current state of our lives (I am guilty of this). The film is divisive not just because of what it wants to say, but also because of how it chooses to present itself. It takes some pretty bold creative risks with what you think you’re watching. I was genuinely caught off guard because the trailers carefully hide a huge part of how the film actually presents its story. Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, and John Goodman did a great job. John Goodman as the President was hilarious as fuck. Watched in IMAX at Megamall. I Ain’t Reading Allat: Fuck Rotten Tomatoes. Digger is bold, hilarious, absurd, and incredibly relevant, using satire to slap us with the uncomfortable reality that we criticize the systems destroying the world while continuing to participate in them. It gave me a lot to think about long after it ended, and that alone makes it one of my favorite films of 2026. 4.5 stars for now, but a rewatch might push this shit to 5.