True Grit (2010)
The story carries a series of dramatic events about a 14-year-old girl. After her father was killed by an outlaw named Tom Chaney, that adult girl, Mattie Ross, is trying to track down the killer and avenge her dead father with a dirty hand. In order to do that, Marshall leases the US Army, a man of real toughness, as well as another man of law who can help them take revenge.
30 September 1944, Galway, Ireland
12 May 1983, Dublin, Ireland
April 21, 1979 in Virginia, USA
15 March 1963, Waco, Texas, USA
8 October 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
12 August 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
4 April 1970, Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
March 11, 2016
The sharp humour of the film and flashes of eccentricity, such as a henchman who only communicates using animal noises, show the Coens' unique personality, but as a whole True Grit is beautifully, simply classic.
September 15, 2013
A fascinating study in how two films can follow the same source material fairly closely but come up with interpretations so tonally, spiritually different--but equally valid.
December 27, 2010
Nothing very startling happens, but the Coens have a sure hand, and Bridges, in the old John Wayne role, plays a man, not a myth; you can sense Rooster's stink and his nasty intelligence, too.
July 01, 2013
With his leisurely growl, somewhere between trail-grizzled and post-nap, Bridges sounds as if he's talking through his collar, in a vocal performance that's entertaining no matter what he's saying.
December 24, 2010
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen fill the film with self-conscious good humor-hey, it's the Coen brothers-and the charmingly old-fashioned locutions of the Charles Portis novel.
January 03, 2011
The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit.
December 23, 2010
The Bible argues an eye for an eye. But as Rooster Cogburn doesn't have an eye to spare, the movie needs to ask if their death quest is worth the risk.
December 24, 2010
The real reason to see the film is the work of the Coens' regular collaborators, cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Carter Burwell, who supply the visual and auditory landscapes that are True Grit's most notable achievement.
May 03, 2015
The year's best film. Deeply moving and entirely unexpected.
May 25, 2013
Duke has been usurped by the Dude, and I couldn't be more thrilled by the experience of watching one of our finest actors take a role as iconic as Rooster Cogburn and indisputably make it his own.
February 09, 2011
It could be the Coens' most straightforward film, but it's also one of their best.
August 11, 2013
Fantastic performances all around, great dialogue and damn fine filmmaking make this one of the best of the year.
