Film Review
This Cowboy Flick Has True Grit
Performances show true craftsmanship in this classic Western throwback.
December was Jeff Bridges' month. Almost one year after winning his first Oscar for Crazy Heart and less than one week after he appeared in dual roles in the flimsy but eye-catching Tron: Legacy, the Dude returns with an eye-patch in the Coen Brothers breezy, entertaining new Western True Grit. The brothers and Bridges haven't worked together since his iconic performance in 1998's The Big Lebowski. This time around, Bridges plays equal parts gruff and funny in the mostly solid but somewhat arbitrary True Grit. Returning to big-name casting after A Serious Man, the latest from Joel and Ethan Coen is an adaptation of the 1969 film of the same title that starred John Wayne (allegedly, this new film is more loyal to the Charles Portis novel …
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