News of the World review: Tom Hanks's first western is a emotional ride
Time Out says Tom Hanks turns on the grizzled charisma in Paul Greengrass’s soulful widescreen western It says a lot about the demise of the genre that this is Tom Hanks’s first western. Until now, this quintessential all-American actor and the most American of genres haven’t passed within a dried-out gulch of each other – four outings as Sheriff Woody notwithstanding. If he’d been born four decades earlier Hanks would surely have vied with Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart to play upstanding lawmen and noble-minded settlers, facing off against cattle rustlers, outlaws and ...