Wild Mountain Thyme: 2
NEWS OF THE WORLD: You can always rely on Tom Hanks to bring you something worthwhile. Here he’s working again with one of the best directors these days, Paul Greengrass (
Captain Phillips, the
Bourne movies) and with a special co-star: 12-year-old Helena Zengel, the German girl who was so brilliant in
System Crasher, which came around earlier this year. Her character was traumatized and unmanageable, and she won major awards. She performs distress again, as a girl who was captured and raised by Kiowa people, can’t speak English and only remembers a bit of the German she used to know. So she says very little in this film but conveys lots with looks, expressions and movement. Hanks gradually figures out how to communicate with her.