Humour is in short supply but this is still a handsome and moving affair which shows that the wagon trail hasn’t run dead quite yet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

At an unnatural time, NEWS OF THE WORLD feels like the perfect communal experience, even when shared at a distance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2024

News Of The World doesn't do anything radically different than what we might come to expect from the Western but it is a well-directed, gorgeously shot film that gets the best out of its two stars at polar opposite stages in their careers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2023

Shows the ingredients of a country at birth, against the backdrop of a newspaper mural that reports sins that are still happening in the second decade of the twentieth century, and this gives the film a spectacular pertinency. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 11, 2022

News of the World, while mildly entertaining, needed a bit more grit and less preaching.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

News of the World is a leisurely lark that showcases sturdy studio filmmaking, with a pair of powerful performances from Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

“News of the World” simmers with current day relevancy, but it very much looks and feels like a classic Hollywood Western...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

For the 1870s setting, the film is thoroughly modern.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

News Of The World is a quietly intriguing film, told at a gentle pace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2022

News of the World is so straightforward that it could have been made by anyone, which is to say the craft is mostly invisible.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2022

Helena Zengel is an actress with a great future. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 4, 2021

A frontier picaresque with gorgeous photography, two excellent lead performances, and a not-so-subtle jab at modern media manipulation.

| Sep 13, 2021

The reteaming once again works to create a satisfying movie that urges audiences to look beyond expected frailties and find reward in possibilities.

| Jul 16, 2021

News of the World is a triumph, and a reminder that Tom Hanks still has so much greatness left to give us.

| Jun 29, 2021

"News of the World" is an unconventional western. But regardless of your genre preference, Hanks and Zengel will win you over.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2021

While News of the World undoubtedly fails in some respects, it also succeeds in delivering the cathartic, contradictory pleasures of traditional, old-school Western, albeit with a modern, self-aware spin ...

| Jun 8, 2021

Coming at the end of a tumultuous 2020, it's never been clearer how dangerously naïve such generic 'hope and change' messaging actually is.

| Jun 5, 2021

A western drama that, in my opinion, is tepid and somewhat irregular when it presents the journey of a character who follows to the letter the stereotype of the upright and honest cowboy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 12, 2021

It's a classic western, but an anti-western... It's beautifully done.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 10, 2021

Hanks is as watchable as ever and Helena Zengel terrific as the girl. Highly recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2021