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News of the World is a 2020 American Western film co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles, and starring Tom Hanks and introducing Helena Zengel in her international film debut. The film follows an aging Civil War veteran who must return a young girl who was taken in by the Kiowa ...
- December 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020 · News of the World: Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson. A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Paul Greengrass
- 2020-12-25
Dec 25, 2020 · News of the World takes a slow but absorbing ride down a comfortingly familiar Western trail, guided by Tom Hanks in peak paternal mode. Five years after the end of the Civil War, Capt. Jefferson ...
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- Paul Greengrass
- PG-13
- Tom Hanks
Jan 15, 2021 · Advertisement. “News of the World” becomes a road movie of sorts for Kidd and Johanna, with new encounters across the unstable landscape. (After the end of the Civil War, Texas was not exactly the safest place in the country.) Greengrass structures it in an episodic way that kind of detracts from the midsection, where the film sags a bit as ...
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Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news of presidents and queens, glorious feuds, devastating catastrophes, and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe. On the plains of Texas, he crosses ...
