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Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.
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| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Ned LannamannScruggs doesn't behave like a typical movie-not even a typical Coen brothers movie. But these two have been amusing themselves-and us-with evasive, masterful films for more than three decades |
| Dog and WolfAlexa DalbyHilarious in places, unsettling and dark in others, visually stunning, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is pure enjoyment. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinHalf-fish, half-fowl and altogether inspired, it is a dazzling mosey through the creeks and canyons of the Coenesque, whose scattershot format and by turns bizarre and macabre sense of humour belies a formal ingenuity and surgical control of tone that keeps the viewer perpetually off-guard. |
| Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyPart sincere and part smarmy, part amusing and part windy nonsense, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs plays like an old Western-themed vaudeville show featuring six unrelated sketches of drastically differing quality. |
| IGNWilliam BibbianiFew filmmakers are as playfully cynical as the Coens, and in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs they haven’t just made a funny, sentimental, exciting and blistering western, they’ve also unlocked their entire filmography for anyone who may have missed the connections before. And there’s no going back now. It’s the Coen Bros.’ world, and good luck to anyone who lives there. |
| Times of IsraelJordan HoffmanFans of the Coen Brothers' work will be thrilled with "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," as it offers so many varieties on what they do well. It regularly jumps between moments of loquacious absurdity to dusty existentialism. |
| FlavorwireJason BaileyThe anthology format gives the Coens room to tinker with new tones and forms, while delivering their unique blend of comedy and dread. |
| Eugene Weekly (OR)Rick LevinThe fatalism and mortality that pervade The Ballad of Buster Scruggs has more in common with the macabre churnings of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville than Louis L'Amour. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe Coens’ newest Western, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, might be their bleakest work of all, and one of their richest. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaIt’s yet another piece of Coen Brothers’ gold that just makes me curious about what kind of magic they’re going to make next. |