Guillermo del Toro defends Digger after negative reviews
The filmmaker has praised Tom Cruise’s *Digger* despite negative reviews, calling it an ambitious film made for the cinema.
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Del Toro said on X that he liked *Digger*, praising its scale and ambition and describing it as a bold, cinematically complex film best seen in a cinema, Nieuws.nl reported on 3 October. He compared its negative reviews with the early criticism of *The Big Lebowski*, *The King of Comedy* and *The Counselor*. [1]
*Digger* stars Tom Cruise and is directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. [1]
Nieuws.nl described the film’s early US box-office takings as disappointing and reported that Variety expects it to be among the year’s biggest flops. [1]
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