Guillermo del Toro Praised 'Digger' — and Answered a Critic Who Said to Wait
'Digger' premiered this weekend to mixed reviews, and Guillermo del Toro is a confirmed fan. The three-time Oscar winner took to social media to heap praise on Tom Cruise's latest, Deadline reports, after pushing back on a critic who called the Alejandro G. Iñárritu satire 'far from a must-watch' and advised waiting. A director liking a film is not news. A director putting his own name behind an answer to a critic, in public, on the film's opening weekend, is a different gesture — it moves the disagreement somewhere readers can see it instead of leaving it in a private note.
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Peer praise is still a review, just from a different seat. Del Toro's endorsement carries a different weight than a studio line because he's a filmmaker with three Oscars and nothing to sell here.
Enthusiasm is cheap on social media. The critic's 'far from a must-watch' at least stakes a position on the movie itself; a post heaping praise on it doesn't tell a reader whether the satire lands.