Digger Rotten Tomatoes Score: How Score Predictions Work

Digger has a Tomatometer score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, from 333 critic reviews, as the film's page showed at 07:15 UK time on 21 October 2026, which makes it Rotten. The versus prediction on that score counts only the number shown at 10:00 US Eastern on Monday 5 October (15:00 UK time, BST), and copies of the page saved by the Internet Archive either side of that moment show 51% from 259 reviews, below the lowest of its five answers, 60+.

Nothing about the score is still open for that prediction: its rules use only the 5 October reading, and the extra time they allowed in case no score could be read has run out too. On the morning of 21 October its page showed it closed, but not yet as settled. A second score prediction, on the new Sense and Sensibility, is settled. This guide, written for readers in Great Britain, uses Digger to show how score predictions work and settle; it is not advice.

Digger on Rotten Tomatoes

Digger is Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, with Tom Cruise in the title role. The studio's UK site says it opened in cinemas across the UK, Ireland and North America on 2 October 2026. Its Rotten Tomatoes page gives three sets of numbers:

• At the reading: copies saved by the Internet Archive at 14:06, 15:00 (31 seconds after the reading time) and 16:21 UK time on 5 October all show 51%, or 132 positive reviews out of 259 (50.97%, rounded).
• On 21 October: 53%, or 176 positive reviews out of 333. That is 44 more positive and 30 more negative reviews than at the reading.
• Numbers that do not count: the Top Critics score, 35% from 65 reviews, and the Popcornmeter, the audience score, at 76% from verified ratings. The prediction names the All Critics Tomatometer.

What the score measures

Rotten Tomatoes' About page defines the Tomatometer as the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive: at least 60% makes a film Fresh, and anything lower makes it Rotten. So it counts how many critics liked a film, not how much. A 90+ answer needs nine positive reviews in every ten, not an average mark of nine out of ten. The Popcornmeter is the share of audience members who rate a film positively; for films where Rotten Tomatoes can confirm ticket purchases, the score it shows by default comes from verified ratings. Digger's 53% and 76% show how far apart the two can be.

Why the timing matters

A Tomatometer score is never final. With a handful of reviews each new one moves it a lot; with hundreds, each one moves it a little. Since the reading, Digger's count has grown by 74 reviews and its score by two points. Because the number keeps moving, a score prediction fixes a date, a time and a time zone, and only the number on the page at that moment counts. Digger's later rise to 53% changes nothing for its prediction.

The rules also plan for a missing score. If none could be read, the Digger prediction allowed more time, until 11:59 pm US Eastern on Friday 9 October (04:59 UK time, BST, on Saturday 10 October), with No as the answer if nothing had appeared by then. That fallback was not needed.

How thresholds and prices work

The Digger prediction listed five thresholds as separate answers, 60+, 70+, 75+, 80+ and 90+, each with its own price between 0p and 100p, the market's estimate of how likely that answer is. An answer is right if the score at the reading time reaches its number: a contract on it then settles at 100p, and otherwise at 0p. More than one answer can be right, since a reading of 84% would make 60+, 70+, 75+ and 80+ right and only 90+ wrong. A higher threshold can only be right if every lower one is, so its price is usually lower, and the prices do not have to add up to 100p.

Say the 80+ answer on a score prediction trades at 35p and you put 350p into it, which buys 10 contracts. The 2% transaction fee is added on top of the stake, so 357p leaves your balance. If the score is 80% or more at the reading time, the 10 contracts settle at 100p each, 1,000p in total; at 79% or less they settle at 0p and the 357p is gone. While the market is open you can sell at the current price instead: if early reviews are mixed and the price falls to 20p, selling gets you 200p back, still a loss but a smaller one.

The dates that count, and what comes next

Every UK time here is BST: the clocks go back only on 25 October (GOV.UK), and New York stays on daylight saving time until 1 November (NIST), so it is five hours behind the UK, except from 25 October to 1 November, when the gap is four hours.

• Monday 5 October 2026, 10:00 US Eastern (15:00 UK time, BST): the Digger reading, at 51%, short of all five thresholds. The prediction's page lists its close as 23:59 UTC that day, which was 00:59 UK time (BST) on Tuesday 6 October.
• Monday 19 October 2026, 10:00 US Eastern (15:00 UK time, BST): the reading for the Sense and Sensibility prediction, which asked whether the 2026 film would score 60 or higher. A copy of the film's page saved by the Internet Archive at 15:03 UK time shows 76% from 99 reviews, above that line. The prediction is settled, and our article on it has the details.
• Thursday 21 January 2027: the Oscar nominations, according to the Academy's press release of 7 April 2026, which says its dates may change. Digger is one of the answers on the versus prediction "Which films will earn a Best Picture Oscar nod?", whose rules name the Academy as the source, not a review score. Our Oscars 2027 guide covers it.

On 21 October 2026 no versus prediction on a Rotten Tomatoes score was open for trading. When the next one opens, check four things in its rules: which number counts (All Critics, Top Critics or the audience score), which film's page (Rotten Tomatoes also has a page for a 1993 film called Digger, and the 2026 film's address ends in digger_2026), the reading time with its time zone, and what happens if no score shows. How to verify market rules goes through a rules text line by line.

Before you trade

You can lose the whole amount you put into a position: a losing contract settles at 0p, and a price is only the market's estimate at one moment. A 2% transaction fee is added on top of the stake and shown before you confirm, you can sell while a market is open, and your loss can never exceed what you put in. Every prediction names the source that settles it before you trade; for these two it is what the Rotten Tomatoes page displays. versus is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission under account 101143 (see its public register), and Safer Play in the app has deposit limits, loss limits, reality checks, time out and self exclusion, alongside GAMSTOP. How it works follows one position from opening to settlement.

Frequently asked questions

What is Digger's Rotten Tomatoes score?

53% on the Tomatometer, from 333 critic reviews, at 07:15 UK time on 21 October 2026, which is Rotten. The Popcornmeter, the audience score, showed 76% from verified ratings.

Does a change in the score after the reading time count?

No. Only the score at the time the rules name counts: for Digger, 15:00 UK time on 5 October, when the page showed 51%. The later rise to 53% makes no difference to the prediction.

Does the audience score count in a Rotten Tomatoes prediction?

Only if the rules name it. The Digger and Sense and Sensibility predictions both name the All Critics Tomatometer, so the Popcornmeter and the Top Critics score do not count.

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