True Grit (2010 film) based on 263 reviews, with an average score of 8.4/10 and with its consensus stating: "Girded by strong performances from Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, and lifted by some of the Coens' most finely tuned, unaffected work, "True Grit" is a worthy companion to the Charles Portis book." Metacritic gave the film an average score of 80/100 based on 41 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Total Film gave the film a five-star review (denoting 'outstanding'): "This isn't so much a remake as a masterly re-creation. Not only does it have the drop on the
The Frisco Kid Gene Wilder's autobiography, "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art", the Tommy Lillard role, played by Harrison Ford, was originally planned for John Wayne. John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis writes that Wayne was "eager to take it on as a comic follow-up to "True Grit" and "Rooster Cogburn". Salary concerns nixed the idea, though, and it's questionable he would have finished the shooting, in any case, as he died shortly before "The Frisco Kid" opened." (Another source says Wayne did not want to make the film due to "vulgarity" in the script.) Wilder said he