Digger, Our Salvation, Verity: what’s new at the cinema this week

What to see in theaters

THE EVENT
DIGGER ★☆☆☆☆

By Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The essentials

Tom Cruise lets loose in front of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s camera in a satire that goes in circles with quickly exhausting one-upmanship

Alone in an empty gallery, Tom Cruise fires, miming a gun with his fingers. The actor has gained weight, wears white hair plastered to his head and speaks with an incomprehensible Texan accent. He lets loose to play Digger Rockwell, an oil king whose drilling in the Far North has just triggered the apocalypse. Imagine Doctor Strangelove reimagined by Lánthimos, with a camera that won’t stay still and grotesqueness on every level.