News of the World
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, 88% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- News of the World takes a slow but absorbing ride down a comfortingly familiar Western trail, guided by Tom Hanks in peak paternal mode.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLinda MarricThe Jewish Chronicle
A beautifully crafted, no frills adventure which often feels like an homage to Westerns of yore.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMark KermodeObserver (UK)
I found this a rewarding and entertaining drama, heavy with the weight of the past, yet buoyed up by the possibilities of the future.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreClarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
Their journey packs in all the usual thrills of the genre - the shootouts and the ravenous jaws of nature - though Greengrass doesn't approach the material with the kineticism of Captain Phillips (also starring Hanks) or the Bourne films.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLarushka Ivan-ZadehMetro Newspaper (UK)
It's all solid, well-turned stuff and, of course, you know you're in safe hands with Hanks, whose acting is so effortlessly good that you're in danger of not fully appreciating i
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRyan GilbeyNew Statesman
News of the World has many of these wise, unforced moments on its way to a final scene in which the on-screen audience applauds wildly. My sentiments exactly.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDonald ClarkeIrish Times
Greengrass's charming western would form the ideal centrepiece for a festival that showcased directors working hard to be something other than what we expect them to be.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreGeoffrey MacnabiNews.co.uk
Humour is in short supply but this is still a handsome and moving affair which shows that the wagon trail hasn’t run dead quite yet.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJoonatan ItkonenToisto.net
At an unnatural time, NEWS OF THE WORLD feels like the perfect communal experience, even when shared at a distance.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChristopher ConnorFILMHOUNDS Magazine
News Of The World doesn't do anything radically different than what we might come to expect from the Western but it is a well-directed, gorgeously shot film that gets the best out of its two stars at polar opposite stages in their careers.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreErick EstradaCinegarage
Shows the ingredients of a country at birth, against the backdrop of a newspaper mural that reports sins that are still happening in the second decade of the twentieth century, and this gives the film a spectacular pertinency. [Full review in Spanish]
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