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‘News of the World’ Film Review: Tom Hanks Plays a Searcher Who Reads the Legends in Old-School Western

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Watch Video: 'News of the World' Trailer: Tom Hanks Reunites With Paul Greengrass in New WesternBut “News of the World” borrows less from Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (in which a newspaperman famously advises, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”) than from “The Searchers,” about a Civil War veteran who finds redemption by rescuing the daughter of settlers from her indigenous kidnappers.

Captain Kidd doesn’t volunteer for this mission; he stumbles upon it, but he becomes nonetheless determined to see it through.While on the road in Texas, he encounters a lynched Black soldier and a terrified young girl in buckskins who speaks no English.

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