The film will satisfy those hungering for a good old Western,
“News of the World” Rated PG-13. At suburban theaters. Grade: B In the tradition of “Shane,” “The Searchers” and “True Grit” comes “News of the World,” a Western starring the remarkably reliable Tom Hanks directed by Englishman Paul Greengrass (“The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Bourne Supremacy”), whose shaky-cam stylings drove half the film-going world crazy for a few years. Greengrass ably directed Hanks in “Captain Phillips” (2013), and he does it again here – without the shakes – in a very different setting and with different material although another captain as the lead to be sure, with just slightly less stellar results. Based on the best-selling 2016 novel by Paulette Giles, “News of the World” is the story of the amply-named Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), who has bullet scars on his back and in the wake of the Civil War reads recent newspapers to news-thirsty crowds from town to town between frontier-era Texas and Indian Territory for a dime a pop. It’s like church, but with news instead of gospel.
