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By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 09 Oct 2018

It’s yet another piece of Coen Brothers’ gold that just makes me curious about what kind of magic they’re going to make next…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Nathanael Hood (305) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 07 Oct 2018

Distilling the finest and most absurd tenants of the Western genre and the most indulgent concessions to the Coens' idiosyncratic filmmaking…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Greg Cwik (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Oct 2018

In their best films, the Coens mine the depths of loneliness and egotism and frailty and solipsism…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 04 Oct 2018

They run a gamut of conventions, proving just how much landscape—geographic and narrative—the Western really covers…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By David Crow (142) for Den of Geek (424) on 03 Oct 2018

While among the other five shorts in the piece there are also gems (as well as a few pieces of fool's gold), the picture never quite overcomes…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Yaron Dahan (1) for MUBI (191) on 18 Sep 2018

Joel and Ethan Coen have made an anthology of witty, off-kilter stories of the old west that thrive on ambience, dialogues, and imagination…

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By Michael Leader (59) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Sep 2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs plays out as a tribute to the flexible nature of the western setting, which can accommodate comic vignettes, grim…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 04 Sep 2018

These stories are all stingingly well told, with the snap and brio that comes so easily to the Coens, often dreadfully funny too…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Raphael Abraham (46) for Financial Times (1,822) on 03 Sep 2018

The good outweighs the bad and ultimately it's no fool's gold, even if it's not quite 24-carat (or should that be carrot?)…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 01 Sep 2018

Once it's time to switch tones, the Coens don't seem to have much to say other than pointing to the well-documented fact that the American…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 Aug 2018

A great deal of Buster Scruggs might ultimately be a touch undercooked by the mercurial siblings’ standards, but dagnabbit if there isn’s…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 31 Aug 2018

What’s most bewitching throughout “Scruggs” is its sense of detail…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 30 Aug 2018

Buster Scruggs” is a singular illustration of what makes the Coen formula so appealing, and a reminder of so many better examples…

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By Philip De Semlyen (78) for Time Out (7,510) on 30 Aug 2018

Richly entertaining and blackly funny but told with sincerity and heart, the half-dozen Western tales packed into The Ballad of Buster Scruggs…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 30 Aug 2018

Part sincere and part smarmy, part amusing and part windy nonsense, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs plays like an old Western-themed vaudeville…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 30 Aug 2018

It’s effective in a somber way, and as shot by cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, it’s dazzling to look at, a reinvention of classic literature…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 30 Aug 2018

The Coens have given us a hilarious, beautifully made, very enjoyable and rather disturbing anthology of stories from the old west, once planned…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 30 Aug 2018

This is a film about America…

Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 30 Aug 2018

Half-fish, half-fowl and altogether inspired, it is a dazzling mosey through the creeks and canyons of the Coenesque, whose scattershot format…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 30 Aug 2018

Ballad doesn’t reinvent the Coens’ sardonic, measured aesthetic, but the anthology’s looser structure allows them a friskiness that is…

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