After an outlaw named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) murders her father, feisty 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to help her find Chaney and avenge her father. The bickering duo are not alone in their quest, for a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) is also tracking Chaney for reasons of his own. Together the unlikely trio ventures into hostile territory to dispense some Old West justice.
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"Girded by strong performances from Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, and lifted by some of the Coens' most finely tuned, unaffected work, True Grit is a worthy companion to the Charles Portis book."
ROTTEN TOMATOES
"This True Grit is timeless."
Slant Magazine
"Terrific: tough, exciting, funny, gorgeous and bewitchingly acted, this
is darn close to perfection."
Empire Magazine
"The Coen brothers' excellent western True Grit is a second and rather
different version of Charles Portis's novel, rather than a remake of the 1969
film that brought John Wayne an Oscar as the one-eyed bounty hunter Marshal
Rooster Cogburn."
Guardian
"It could be the Coens' most straightforward film, but it's also one of
their best."
Time Out
"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."
The Atlantic
