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News of the World

2020

Paul Greengrass

Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Neil Sandilands, Elizabeth Marvel ...

6.4

12,199

Western. Drama Five years after the end of the Civil War, veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe. In the plains of Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna (Helena Zengel), a 10-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier and raised as one of their own. Johanna, hostile to a world she's never ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"An epic Western with an intimate gaze that recalls The Searchers and True Grit, providing Tom Hanks with one of his best roles"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'News of the World' works at the highest levels as a story of two lost souls who find one another, and as a crackling good, blood-spattered Western (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A modest but morally forceful Western about a nation in need of healing (...) it lacks the muscle needed to reach the end of the journey without getting tired."	NEU
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"Anchored by the innate decency that Tom Hanks brings to the majority of his performances, News of the World is a comforting balm from a director who usually avoids such warmth in his pictures."	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"One of the most rewarding subtexts of the film is the theme of journalism (...) Kidd doesn’t report the news, but he recognizes that, in telling stories, there are truths that can restore our humanity (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Favoring scenery over incident, Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks reunite for a long, slow road movie"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There’s something comforting about giving yourself over to an undeniably talented group of artists for two hours and just letting them tell you a story (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"The feeling persists that 'News of the World' -- though brimming with visual beauty and quiet grace -- could have packed a more potent punch if it had risked more and cut deeper"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A modest, solid western (...) is tender without descending too far into sentimentality. But it can also feel a bit soft and puffed up. (...) The problem is that it’s too nice a movie, too careful and compromised, as if its makers didn’t trust the audience to handle the real news of the world".	NEU
United States	Zaki Hasan IGN	"News of the World arrives at the perfect moment. While in any other year it would be a welcome respite from superheroes and explosions, in 2020 it’s a welcome respite from... life."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"An imperfect but sensitive attempt to confront, or at least sidestep, some of the reductive tropes and historically problematic representations of the genre."	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"The movie offers few surprises (...) and yet there's a cumulative weight to World that feels, if hardly new, still worth sitting through."	POS
United States	Sonia Saraiya Vanity Fair	"Despite the intriguing character elements at play, News of the World feels kind of quaint (...) the contiguous parts of the film don't blend into something uniform"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A classic, crafted yet surprisingly propulsive film which, of any out there,"	POS
United States	K. Austin Collins Rolling Stone	"Greengrass’ trademark efficiency as a storyteller is very much here. But more often the movie sticks to the contemplative (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"'News of the World' isn't as good a 'dad' movie as Hanks's 'Greyhound' this year. Still, as Greengrass' nomadic storyteller, the naturally folksy Hanks fits the wild Western setting (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"Greengrass’ style is at odds with the material here (..:) And yet, Greengrass is also able to conjure up some beautiful, haunting imagery"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Paul Greengrass doesn’t change the genre, but the genre changes him"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"A more intimate, less macho take on the genre (...) 'News of the World' is not a very violent film, as far as modern Westerns go. That’s refreshing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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