Movie Reviewed: True Grit
Director: Joe and Ethan Coen
Date Watched: 30 May 2021
jamesintexas rating: ****
I just think this is a perfect film. Bridges is Tuben "Rooster" Cogburn, one-eyed overweight US Marshall, a curmudgeon who is willing, eventually, to do the right thing. Matt Damon is LeBouef, (La-Beef), a Texan of honor and principles. And the debut of Hailee Steinfeld as Maddie, the avenger of her father's murder, no nonsense and swift enough to out maneuver a bad deal and the turns and twists of Rooster and LeBouef, all delivered in a clipped, quick, fiercely intelligent cadence. I love The Coen Brothers, and I love this film, especially more having just read Portis's magnificent novel.
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