The balm of the storyteller is central to the work of Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an ex-infantryman who travels from town to town in Texas five years after the Civil War, for a modest fee reading lively accounts of events from both nearby and far afield to people in need of healing.
That same spirit informs Paul Greengrass'News of the World, an epic Western with an intimate gaze that recalls The Searchers and True Grit, providing Tom Hanks with one of his best roles since the same director's Captain Phillips.
In many ways the Universal release is a venture into more conventionally handsome, stately, even old-fashioned prestige-picture territory for a director better known for his propulsive, viscerally charged action.
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