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‘News of the World’ Review: ‘True Grit’ Meets ‘The Searchers’ in Dry Tom Hanks Western

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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticTom Hanks is the kind of actor about whom we accept the aphorism that he could read the phone book and make it sound great.

Reuniting Hanks with “Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass, laconic Western “News of the World” tests that theory by casting the star as a news reader, a Civil War veteran who travels across Texas to deliver the nation’s headlines to small-town residents hungry for updates from afar — and the result, while gorgeous to behold, is only slightly more exciting than the phone book option might have been.For a dime a head, crowds congregate to hear Capt.

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