A storyteller with heart
Movie | News of the World delivers a lesson in empathy for an embittered world
by Megan Basham
Posted 1/14/21, 03:44 pm
The latest Tom Hanks vehicle, News of the World, is set in the 1800s: It’s a few years after the Civil War, and the greatest argument in our nation’s history has been settled through the bloody clash of state against state, brother against brother. But that doesn’t mean America has put resentment and division behind it.