Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieRevews.com
- Excerpt: A fine, if not great, piece of filmmaking, more thoughtful than though-provoking. Still, this contemplation of how to move forward after tragedy has a genuine poetry to it.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: For a film whose narrative follows expected paths, “News of the World” offers several surprises, like realizing this is Tom Hanks’ first Western, and Greengrass has given him a perfect Hanks vehicle…
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A stately but sluggish Western.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: 2020 could take some lessons from 1870 Tom Hanks, a man trying to stitch together a similarly broken time and deliver lost souls.
- Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip.com
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: This is one of the best, most engrossing Westerns of recent years.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Greengrass executes a few big set pieces to present [his leads’] growing kinship with some wonderful visual tableaus bridging the gap between cultures.
- [New] | Beverly Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: Adapted from Paulette Jiles’ novel, a National Book Award finalist, “News of the World” clearly defines the bad and inspires what to do when it is encountered.
- Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: Hanks is at his paternal best, here.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Excerpt: Tom Hanks is great as always, as the film is told from his weary, anguished eyes. But newcomer Helena Zengel steals the film with a mesmerizing performance as a young girl traumatized by personal tragedy, untrusting of the world around her and just beginning to learn her communication.
