'True Grit' Trailer: Retribution

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This looks fantastic. Normally the idea of present-day Hollywood remaking a film made ionic by John Wayne would make us a little queasy, but the Coen Brothers know what they’re doing and Jeff Bridges is obviously an inspired piece of casting. In the brief flashes the newly minted Oscar winner is seen here, there’s little doubt he completely owns both the screen and the role.

The story looks as though it will stay pretty true to the original: The snake pit, “fill your hand…,” and all that. It’s the closing title — “Retribution” — that likely tells you where the Coens are headed theme-wise.

We likey.

“True Grit” opens Christmas day.