- Year: 2020
- Released: 25 Dec 2020
- Country: United States
- Adwords: Nominated for 4 Oscars. 5 wins & 81 nominations total
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6878306/
- Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/news_of_the_world
- Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/news-of-the-world
- Available in: 720p, 1080p, 720p
- Language: English, North American Indian, German
- MPA Rating: PG-13
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
- Runtime: 118 min
- Writer: Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies, Paulette Jiles
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor
- Keywords: based on novel or book, 19th century, shootout, texas, orphan,
 | 6.8/10 |
 | 73/100 |
 | 88% – Critics |
 | 89% – Audience |
News of the World Storyline
Wandering from town to town, only five years after the end of the Civil War, the grizzled former Confederate Army officer, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, travels the dusty and dangerous roads of 1870 Texas to make a living. For the price of a dime, gentle Kyle, dressed in his impeccable suit, informs and entertains the people, reading the latest news and recounting captivating stories of exotic, far-off places from his pile of newspapers, knowing, however, that some wounds never heal. Then, on one of his travels, the irresistible storyteller comes across the gruesome scene of a murder, and encounters the abducted ten-year-old orphan, Johanna: now, the proud daughter of the Kiowa nomadic warriors, Turning Water and Three Spotted. To reunite the savage girl with her only surviving kin, patient Jefferson is willing to brave the perils of the long journey back and risk life and limb for twice-orphaned Johanna. But, amid harsh territories once divided by war, what will it take to find this orphan a home?
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News of the World Movie Reviews
A very different sort of film for Hanks.
The plot to “News of the World” is pretty simple and it’s a leisurely paced film…somewhat like Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho”. It is set in 1870 in the Reconstruction Era in Texas. Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks) is a Civil War veteran who happens upon a head man and a wild blonde girl in the wilderness. There are papers with the dead man’s possessions indicating that the girl, Johanna, was abducted and raised by Kiowa Indians after her parents were killed. She was discovered with the Kiowa and the US Army sent her with an agent to return her to her extended family. But he’s dead…and no one seems willing to help…so Kidd finally agrees to take her the 400 miles to Castroville, Texas (near San Antonio).
As you’d suspect, this won’t be easy since the child really wants to be with the Kiowa and she doesn’t understand English. Her family were German immigrants…so she understands some German…but Kidd only knows a few words of the language himself. The film shows them on their journey across the Plains to her family.
This is a most enjoyable film and a nice change of pace for Tom Hanks. It also talks about a seldom discussed problem which happened on rare occasions…white kids being abducted and raised by various tribes. Interesting and never dull.
Engaging little western
A good old-fashioned western from director Paul Greengrass, better than his last, the morbid 22 JULY. This one adopts a traditional journey narrative in its story of a grizzled Tom Hanks transporting a precocious young girl across the hostile West in search of her estranged family members. The news aspect doesn’t really add much to the story, but Greengrass’s superior direction is what makes this worth a watch. He brings in the suspense, handling it well in a lengthy set-piece in which limited firepower adds to the tension. Hanks is on form here and the whole thing is engaging, if not spectacular.
tripod
It’s 1870. Former confederate soldier Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks) travels from town to town reading the newspapers for a paying audience. On the road, he comes across a lynched black man and a little white girl (Helena Zengel). She’s a Kiowa child who apparently was taken from settlers many years ago. Kidd is forced to take the child back to her surviving family.
Director Paul Greengrass is doing a John Ford western. It’s sort of like The Searchers. Tom Hanks is doing his everyman. The little girl is terrific. They have good chemistry together. It’s a very simple road movie. It’s all good… except for Greengrass standard shaky cam style. It doesn’t really fit the genre. He needs a tripod. There are a few scenes that need some work but mostly it’s the shaky cam.
