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In Paul Greengrass’s 19th-century odyssey, a grizzled Hanks and magnificent young Helena Zendel bring an old genre to fizzing new life
10 February 2021 • 12:23pm
Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel take to the prairie road in Paul Greengrass s News of the World
Credit: Universal
Dir: Paul Greengrass. Cast: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Michael Covino, Elizabeth Marvel, Thomas Francis Murphy, Bill Camp. 12 cert, 119 mins
A little girl stands at the edge of the Texas prairie, her slight figure framed by an open doorway, as if she’s caught on the threshold between two kinds of life. Her predicament calls to mind the famous final shot of The Searchers, in which John Wayne’s grizzled hero lingers awkwardly outside a frontier homestead, unable to leave behind the hostile landscape that made him who he is. But unlike the 6’4”, Winchester-toting Duke, this youngster (played by Helena Zengel), with matted blonde hair and a tideline of freckles across her nose and cheeks, does not ha