"True Grit" (PG-13, 110 minutes): Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen remake the 1969 Western that earned John Wayne his only Oscar, a pedigree that might give lesser egos pause.
In this case, "True Grit" has received the care, consideration and classy retooling that Charles Portis' novel has deserved. Hailee Steinfeld makes an uncommonly assured debut as the invincible Mattie Ross, whose father has been shot by Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin).
Mattie arrives in Fort Smith, Ark., to claim her father's body, acquire cash by way of some canny horse-trading and avenge her father's death by hunting Chaney down and seeing him hang. She enlists U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to go into Indian territory and bring Chaney in.
"True Grit" evinces none of the snarky, ironic distance that can sometimes mark and mar a Coen brothers production. Here, the film's considerable humor comes not from the filmmakers' own superior remove but from the characters themselves. Contains intense sequences of Western violence.
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"Just Go With It" (PG-13, 117 minutes): Adam Sandler plays a Los Angeles plastic surgeon named Danny Maccabee, whose back story plays out in the movie's first few scenes: The victim of a scheming, two-timing bride-to-be, Danny flees her clutches at the altar, then finds that his wedding ring and hard-luck story works like catnip with the ladies.
Jump cut to a couple of decades later, when Danny is still working that grift on unsuspecting girls 20 years his junior. When one of Danny's conquests turns out to be true love, and she finds his decoy wedding ring, the quick-thinking Lothario dragoons his long-suffering assistant Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) and her precocious kids to play his soon-to-be estranged family.
Thanks to Danny's profession, "Just Go With It" contains predictable sight gags involving plastic surgery gone wrong. Writers Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling cram in as many bathroom references as possible, all the while making "Just Go With It" sophomoric enough to appeal to kids and raunchy enough to make it inappropriate for them. Contains frequent crude and sexual content, partial nudity, brief drug references and profanity.
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"Battle: Los Angeles"
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