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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 14 Nov 2018

Even if you watch it on your phone, there's an integrity and a weight to the thing that lingers long after the last page is turned…

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By Richard Von Busack (346) for North Bay Bohemian (7) on 14 Nov 2018

If the Coens' Hail, Caesar…

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By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Nov 2018

With a filmography stuffed with masterpieces, the Coen brothers’ greatest trick is balancing the ironic commentary on cinema and storytelling…

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By Cameron Meier (130) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 14 Nov 2018

The Coens... have experimented with shorts before (just not in their own theatrically released feature). But, as usual, they make it seem fresh…

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By Terry Staunton (141) for Radio Times (2,421) on 13 Nov 2018

The Coens masterfully flit from jet-black drama to tear-stained sentimentality to ruthless savagery to ambiguous morality, while keeping a…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 13 Nov 2018

All in all, this “Buster” is something else…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 13 Nov 2018

It’s a mixed bunch, often flimsy, with deliberate lurches of tone, and the Coens, as ever, are unable (or unwilling) to decide whether barbarous…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 12 Nov 2018

Unfortunately, these six campfire stories also distinctly feel like odds and ends that've been sitting in a drawer gathering dust…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Kermode & Mayo's Film Review (77) on 12 Nov 2018

I particularly loved the Tom Waits thing... I enjoyed it, I was never bored…

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By Douglas Davidson (49) for Elements of Madness (30) on 12 Nov 2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is whimsical, fantastical, hilarious, melancholic, and often brutally violent…

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By Joey Magidson (137) for Hollywood News (128) on 12 Nov 2018

Whichever type of Coen film you prefer, there's a bit of that to be found here…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Nov 2018

The strength of the Coens is that they are so witty, skilled and smart, so in command of their medium, so fluid and agile, so capable of surprising…

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By Jimmyo (378) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 12 Nov 2018

You will not want to miss this twisted tale of cowboys, indians and more than a few unsavory folks looking for a gunfight…

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By Matthew Dougherty (34) for The Filtered Lens (17) on 11 Nov 2018

The results overall feel like riding a rickety wooden rollercoaster, where one wrong bump could send the whole thing crashing down, but put…

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By Sean Mulvihill (414) for FanboyNation.com (414) on 11 Nov 2018

More so than usual, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs sees the Coen Brothers toying with audience expectations, resulting in a film that is all…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for 812filmreviews (121) on 11 Nov 2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is reliant on life and fate's brutal eccentricities...while incorporating and morphing the reverberations of the…

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By Nate Adams (71) for The Only Critic (71) on 11 Nov 2018

So the results are mixed in that Buster Scruggs is considered a feature film, and thus the anthology episodes should be taken individually…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Simran Hans (401) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 10 Nov 2018

As far as I can tell, these shorts have as much in common with the wearied soul of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) or the playful, haphazard Hail,…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Nov 2018

Director of photography Bruno Delbonnel's luminous work here is the film's biggest asset, shafts of sunlight, pale faces, nighttime snowfall…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 09 Nov 2018

It's the sort of impressionistic pastiche, the tweaking of iconic Americana, that defines so much of the Coens' best work…

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