The 31 Best Films Of 2011 - No. 15True Grit Who doesn’t love the Coen’s? It’s become a pivotal question in my first date interrogation proviso. I imagine in their writing room them having a big Wheel of Fortune-esque wheel with each segment having scrawled on it a different movie genre and I simple spin is how they decide which type of film they’re next going to make. A making of space in their awards case quickly proceeds. The boys have got all the bases covered. For their first western, they manage to keep it traditional but also to drop in a few of their dark, twisted, quirky numbers they’ve become ever so famous for. Jeff Bridges is, as always, brilliant. For me he was robbed of second best actor Oscar at last years awards. His boozing, bumbling Cogburn is so strangely loveable that he’d be your first pick to lead you on a journey through America’s mid west. Hailee Steinfeld’s performance was one of the most mature of the year. The girl came out of nowhere to give an astonishing display with the perfect balance of toughness and fragility. It’s a beautiful film to watch, which is something you rarely say about westerns but what the Coen’s got here is the winning formula of enough black comedy to keep their usual following happy but with all the rights elements of a laid back, gritty western.

The 31 Best Films Of 2011 - No. 15
True Grit

Who doesn’t love the Coen’s? It’s become a pivotal question in my first date interrogation proviso. I imagine in their writing room them having a big Wheel of Fortune-esque wheel with each segment having scrawled on it a different movie genre and I simple spin is how they decide which type of film they’re next going to make. A making of space in their awards case quickly proceeds. The boys have got all the bases covered.

For their first western, they manage to keep it traditional but also to drop in a few of their dark, twisted, quirky numbers they’ve become ever so famous for. Jeff Bridges is, as always, brilliant. For me he was robbed of second best actor Oscar at last years awards. His boozing, bumbling Cogburn is so strangely loveable that he’d be your first pick to lead you on a journey through America’s mid west. Hailee Steinfeld’s performance was one of the most mature of the year. The girl came out of nowhere to give an astonishing display with the perfect balance of toughness and fragility.

It’s a beautiful film to watch, which is something you rarely say about westerns but what the Coen’s got here is the winning formula of enough black comedy to keep their usual following happy but with all the rights elements of a laid back, gritty western.

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