This week’s films and series: Tom Cruise nearly unrecognizable in Digger, Cannes winner Fjord premieres in Sweden

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This week’s films and series: Tom Cruise nearly unrecognizable in Digger, Cannes winner Fjord premieres in Sweden
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Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil mogul who must save the world when one of his oil rigs causes an environmental disaster. Cruise is almost unrecognizable in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's satire.

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The Christian Romanian-Norwegian couple Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) are alarmed when their daughter arrives at school with bruises. Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's drama was named best film at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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The couple Filip (Gustaf Skarsgård) and Caroline (Aliette Opheim) invite old friends from their time at the School of Economics to their mountain farm one stormy evening to get them to invest in their hotel plans. Josephine Bornebusch directed the comedy, where everything goes completely off the rails when the chef accidentally mixes hallucinogenic mushrooms into the food. The film will premiere in a small number of cinemas and will be available on Netflix on October 15.

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The highly controversial documentary is political dynamite because it contains testimony about Israeli soldiers' abuses in Gaza. But the information in the film has also been rejected by the military leadership and has led to demands that filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor be stripped of their Israeli citizenship.

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Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson star in the next major film adaptation of the books by author phenomenon Colleen Hoover. A psychological thriller about a best-selling author whose unexpected secret is at risk of being revealed when a ghostwriter is hired to complete her novel.

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Documentary about the high-profile assassination attempt on author Salman Rushdie in August 2022.

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Florence Pugh stars in the new TV adaptation of John Steinbeck's family saga about the Trask and Hamilton families through the generations. The series is created by Zoe Kazan, granddaughter of Elia Kazan, who directed the 1955 film starring James Dean.

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When restaurateur Tommy (Göran Ragnerstam) has a stroke, the estranged siblings Agnes (Matilda Källström) and Oscar (Rasmus Savic) must work together to run their father's restaurant. Artist Hanna Ferm makes her acting debut in the soap opera, which draws some inspiration from the hit series "The Bear."

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