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No working American filmmakers are as prolific, diverse and consistently impressive as the inimitable Coen Brothers, who have maintained the moviemaking Midas touch for almost three decades and continue to surprise. The Coens’ add hard-boiled classical western to their ever-expanding oeuvre with True Grit, adapting a novel by Charles Portis which was also the source [...]

In a darkly comic contemporary parable about maintaining strength amid spirit-crushing adversity America’s preeminent tag-team writer/ directors, the inimitable Coen brothers, dump the weight of the world onto the shoulders of a mild-mannered protagonist and push him to the precipice of personal and professional breakdown to see what sparks fly out of his conscience. The [...]