That starts when he comes across the scene of a murder. His travels and encounters also mean he can read people better than most, which will be essential for the next chapter of his life. He’s an entertainer as much as an informer, choosing what to read and how to present it. The chosen profession has made him something of an isolated wanderer, but it's also imbued a deep humanity in Kidd that has given him the air of an old-fashioned storyteller. Home delivery wasn’t a thing 150 years ago and many people in these small towns couldn’t even read, so they relied on people like Kidd to tell them what’s going on in the world.

Kidd is a newsreader, someone who travels from town to town and literally gets paid to read the news to the locals. Hanks reunites with his “ Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass to play a very different kind of Captain in Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a traveler in Texas in 1870, not long after the end of the Civil War. Everyone here is at the top of their craft from the character actors who populate the ensemble to the two leads at its center to everyone behind the camera, and you can feel that from first frame to last. Yes, it’s relatively predictable and arguably a little thin in terms of ambition, but it’s also refined and nuanced in ways that these films often aren’t. That’s what this will be for many this holiday season. There’s something comforting about giving yourself over to an undeniably talented group of artists for two hours and just letting them tell you a story. There’s an attention to detail in every corner of this movie, including not just the period recreation but everything from James Newton Howard’s lovely score to Tom Hanks’ subtle performance. There’s an old-fashioned aesthetic in “News of the World” that might make it easy to dismiss as a “dad movie,' something that plays on TNT in regular rotation for the next decade (which it almost certainly will), but this kind of finely-calibrated genre film is harder to pull off than it looks.

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