Don’t let anyone spoil ‘Digger’ for you

Tom Cruise delivers the performance of his career in a movie whose real subject only comes into focus after it has already started playing with your head.Near the beginning of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger,” oil baron Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is briefing the president and his Cabinet. Digger, preoccupied with his terminally ill cat, has just set off a calamitous global environmental disaster and is meeting with the president to mitigate the fallout. None of us, not even the most rational people, is immune to the power of emotional messaging. The president, played by a slimmed-down John Goodman, is an...