The Coen brothers’ True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, has been named one of “The 8 best Westerns of all time” by The Week .
The list, written by David Faris and published Aug. 21, puts the 2010 film alongside High Noon (1952), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Unforgiven (1992). True Grit is the most recent movie on it.
The recognition lands as another Joel and Ethan Coen Western draws new attention. No Country for Old Men, the 2007 film starring Tommy Lee Jones, was released 19 years ago this week . Josh Brolin appears in both movies.
Why The Week Put True Grit on Its List
Faris describes the film as the Coens’ “remake of the 1969 original.” Hailee Steinfeld plays 14-year-old Mattie Ross, who hires Cogburn to track down Tom Chaney (Brolin), the man who murdered her father.…