The 27 Best Films on Netflix UK Right Now
Tom Hanks is in peak avuncular mode in this Paul Greengrass western . He plays Captain Kidd, a Civil War veteran who now makes a living travelling between remote Texas towns, reading out the news (hence the title, for those who were expecting more Hugh Grant and phone hacking). On one trip, he comes across a German girl (a fantastic Helena Zengel) who'd been kidnapped and raised by Kiowa Indians, but whose adoptive family has just been slaughtered. Being Tom Hanks, he decides to take her back to her only surviving family, and the journey plays out like a reverse The Searchers, in which Hanks...
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