'News of the World': Film Review | Hollywood Reporter
Soulful, steady, stirring. TWITTER 12/25/2020 Tom Hanks and German discovery Helena Zengel star in this Western odyssey from Paul Greengrass about two broken people finding unity, set in Texas five years after the Civil War. The balm of the storyteller is central to the work of Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an ex-infantryman who travels from town to town in Texas five years after the Civil War, for a modest fee reading lively accounts of events from both nearby and far afield to people in need of healing. That same spirit informs Paul Greengrass' News of the World, an epic Western with an inti...