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By Adam Epstein (18) for Quartz (18) on 20 Nov 2018

Despite having only the Western genre and a vague thematic through-line of death in common, the stories build on one another, subtly cohering…

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By Renee Schonfeld (431) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 20 Nov 2018

Old West anthology is riveting, unconventional, violent…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Kent Garrison (58) for Mad About Movies Podcast (98) on 19 Nov 2018

The Coens bring us their most gorgeous, visceral, and unpredictable film to date with Buster Scruggs…

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By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 19 Nov 2018

Any full-length Coen brothers' movie beats these six shorts, but they're all gorgeous, original and often funny…

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By Vince Mancini (256) for Uproxx (697) on 19 Nov 2018

If you scratch the surface, Buster Scruggs gets to the root of what the Coen Brothers’ work is about, and what it’s always been about…

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By Alan French (85) for We Bought a Blog (53) on 19 Nov 2018

[The Coen Brothers] have not created the most iconic film of their career, but bring a unique bend to the American Western in the process…

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By Esther Zuckerman (46) for Thrillist (209) on 19 Nov 2018

Let the Coens take you on funny, yet incredibly depressing, journey through a vicious land…

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By Colin Fitzgerald (2) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Nov 2018

For all its flaws, it's the story of America as it is now, because of what it was then…

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By Gabriella Geisinger (8) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 19 Nov 2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a well crafted, if narrow, anthology about life in the West, with a hefty gloss of cinema-magic…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Nov 2018

There are laughs aplenty in this lawless, arbitrary, mythological Old West, but a feel-good yarn it ain’t…

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By April Wolfe (199) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 19 Nov 2018

The best I can say about Buster Scruggs is that it seems as though the Coens picked their favorite actors and wrote them a part specifically…

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By Tomas Trussow (247) for The Lonely Film Critic (186) on 18 Nov 2018

The vast expanse of the Wild West does not prevent those who pass on from being forgotten, and the way their marks are left inscribed within…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 18 Nov 2018

I wasn't exactly thrilled with such an inauspicious beginning, or with the second adventure, either, which continues the entire anthology's…

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By Ross Miller (135) for The National (Scotland) (129) on 18 Nov 2018

A minor Coen effort in the grand scheme, but this whimsical, offbeat, surprising, beautifully self-aware and strangely affecting chronicle…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 18 Nov 2018

However Buster Scruggs came to be, it highlights the best of the Coens' mordant minds, but not without tripping over a few unintended obstacles…

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By Rohan Naahar (197) for Hindustan Times (753) on 17 Nov 2018

Each story feels unique, yet cut from the same cloth…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 17 Nov 2018

Buster Scruggs is full-blooded bliss splashed across an American frontier as mad and savage as decades of storied nightmarish incivility…

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By Joe Friar (93) for The Victoria Advocate (93) on 17 Nov 2018

Tragedy is at the forefront of the Coen Brothers western anthology…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Nov 2018

Uneven, but it exhibits the brothers' quirky sense of humor throughout, as well as their undeniable filmmaking finesse…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 17 Nov 2018

Couldn't look more like a carefully constructed omnibus if it emerged from the Amicus imprint during the 1960s and featured Christopher Lee…

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