The filmmakers lean on Wayne, who gives die-hard fans access to a rich performance that, for many, forgives all else that remains so clumsy about the picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2023

A marvelously entertaining blend of classic Western melodrama and irresistible old-style sentiment.

| Aug 19, 2021

Wayne won a Best Actor Academy Award for his rambunctious turn.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 30, 2021

A winning, action-packed, humorous, road trip-styled revenge epic.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2020

True Grit depends on that simple, no doubt reprehensible (at least emphatically illiberal), irrepressibly amiable star image the cinema is supposed to have out- grown.

| Jul 18, 2018

Classic Western with memorable characters, some gun violence

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2017

Maybe it is not great cinema, but it is great entertainment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2016

An undeniably vivid, exceedingly well directed (by veteran Henry Hathaway) frontier tale that "tells it like it was."

| Jul 29, 2015

If I had to pick only one True Grit movie to take to the proverbial desert island, it'd be Hathaway's, Wayne's, Ballard's and, while we're at it, Elmer Bernstein's...

| May 1, 2011

Far too often for True Grit to quite overcome, [Wayne's] larger-than-life turn flirts with, if not outright topples into, self-parody.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 5, 2011

| Original Score: A | Jan 1, 2011

The girl with the strength of a man, and the man with a sensitive heart (albeit under layers of crust). The calculated softening of Wayne's macho persona at long last won him the Oscar. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2010

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 27, 2010

| Original Score: A | Dec 26, 2010

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 26, 2010

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 26, 2010

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 26, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 25, 2010

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 25, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 25, 2010