Geoff Dyer

This is cinema as car ad, says Geoff Dyer: News of the World reviewed

With soaring drone shots, Paul Greengrass wants us to see too much in his new western. It’s not just nudity or violence that’s gratuitous

How the west was lost: Johanna Leonberger (Helena Zengel) and Captain Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) in News of the World. Credit: Bruce W. Talamon/Universal Pictures/Netflix
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