FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Review: ‘News of the World,’ Paul Greengrass’ odd-couple Western, is an admirable but bumpy ride [Los Angeles Times :: BC-NEWS-WORLD-MOVIE-REVIEW:LA]
“We’re all hurting. These are difficult times.”
That’s Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a bearer of mostly bad tidings played with grizzled wit and warmth by Tom Hanks, and he isn’t exaggerating. A deadly epidemic has broken out. Racist violence is a daily scourge. A long and brutal national conflict has come to an end, but Texas, like many other Southern states, is none too keen to accept the outcome or its legislative implications. Some locals scowl in disbelief at the news that Kidd brings them, clinging stubbornly to their certainty that the future is theirs and theirs alone to determine.