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News of the World

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Directed by Paul Greengrass
Produced by Gregory Goodman, Gary Goetzman, and Gail Mutrux
Screenplay by Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies Based on the novel by Paulette Jiles
With: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Michael Covino, Fred Hechinger, Neil Sandilands, Thomas Francis Murphy, Mare Winningham, Elizabeth Marvel, Chukwudi Iwuji, Ray McKinnon, and Bill Camp
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Editing: William Goldenberg
Music: James Newton Howard
Runtime: 118 min
Release Date: 25 December 2020
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
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Lots to admire but nothing to love about Greengrass's western adventure in which Tom Hanks plays a decent, capable, educated man travelling the post-Civil War South who becomes an even more decent, capable, educated man travelling the post-Civil War South.