Synopsis
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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Cast
- Tom HanksCaptain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
- Helena ZengelJohanna Leonberger
- Michael Angelo CovinoAlmay
- Ray McKinnonSimon Boudlin
- Mare WinninghamDoris Boudlin
- Elizabeth MarvelMrs. Gannett
- Fred HechingerJohn Calley
- Bill CampMr. Branholme
- Thomas Francis MurphyMr. Farley
- Gabriel EbertBenjamin Farley
Recommendations
- 90
IGN
Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks have given us something truly special with their latest collaboration: a film that is engaging and challenging but also just makes you feel good. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Essentially a two-hander though enlivened by incisive secondary character turns along the way, it's a drama made with tremendous feeling, an unhurried, contemplative tale peppered with nail-biting set-pieces. - 88
Movie Nation
In the hands of Tom Hanks and his “Captain Phillips” director, Paul Greengrass, this adaptation of a Paulette Jiles novel becomes a parable for these “troubled times,” a story of race and unrepentant racism, men of violence who won’t give up that violence and the power of a free press to rectify that. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The movie offers few surprises and even less alacrity; and yet there's a cumulative weight to World that feels, if hardly new, still worth sitting through. - 80
TheWrap
News of the World nestles comfortably not only in the canon of the Western but also among the films by European artists who make a movie in the United States and find themselves overwhelmed by all that space. To his credit, Greengrass finds an emotionally engaging way to fill it. - 80
Screen Daily
Greengrass is definitely aiming for big-screen entertainment here, and Hanks is the actor to deliver it. - 75
IndieWire
If Greengrass’ broadly entertaining (if gallingly relevant) film is a bit too soft and spread thin to hit with the emotional force that it could, so much of its simple power is owed to the grounded nature of the director’s approach, which allows these desperate characters to feel as if they’re trying to escape the very genre that threatens to define them forever. - 70
Slashfilm
The drifting from town to town gives the whole thing an episodic feel, and as great as Hanks is, even his talents aren’t enough to distract us from the sheer predictability of what’s going on here.
