It has "True Grit"

The Remake of John Wayne’s 1969 western film, “True Grit” is a front-runner for best picture at this year’s Oscars.

The story is set in 1880 about a 14-year-old girl, Mattie Ross, and a US Marshall, Rooster Cogburn in search of her father’s murderer, Tom Clancy.

Hailee Steinfeld does an outstanding as the smart, strong and stubborn Mattie Ross. Without her performance the movie would have suffered. Jeff Bridges knocks it of the park as the grouchy old drunk, US Marshall Cogburn.

They are chasing Tom Chaney her father's murderer, played by Josh Brolin, who is withe Cogburn's enemy Lucky Ned Pepper, ironically played by Barry Pepper.

Chaney and Pepper are not in the movie as much as you would expect.

Directed by the Coen brothers, this movie perfectly combines tense scenes with comedy. They also kept a lot from the original, but they changed it enough so it would be a different movie.

Rating: A-, One of the best westerns in the past 25 years.