A fun, playful homage to the Western genre that boasts laughs and excitement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The stories that involve the least efflorescent Coen dialogue — the ones driven by stark silences or old coots talking to their mules — come off the best.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 24, 2022

From the opening credits to the final scroll the Coens lean into their creative freedom and show off an undeniable joy of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

It's far more existential and even primal in the way the film circles around, as most Coen films do, to the simple and unforgiving notion that the meanings people assign to their lives rarely matter.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Episode 20: When Jeff Tried To Save The World / Creed II / The Ballad of Buster Scruggs / The World Is Yours / Burning

| Original Score: 68/100 | Sep 3, 2021

Highs, lows, and everything in between, slapped between two fraying book covers

| Jul 2, 2021

It's great to get new Coen Brothers material in whatever form it takes, but here's hoping their next project is an honest-to-goodness feature film designed to play in theaters, where their work belongs.

| Apr 29, 2021

[The Coen brothers] haven't reinvented a genre, but they've certainly polished it up somethin' purrtty.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 25, 2021

This is not satire, for the most part, aimed at those who rule, manipulate and exploit Americans, but at those who are ruled, manipulated and exploited in America.

| Feb 11, 2021

As the Coens have told us before, you can't stop what's coming.

| Feb 9, 2021

Unlike so many anthology movies, the pieces of the Coens' omnibus build into something more.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 4, 2021

Problematically, some of the fables are better than others, which means that the weaker links drag down the impact of the more impressive chapters.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 5, 2020

...while a couple of the segments land well and make you smile, the majority just put you to sleep. There's way too much singing, an excess of goofiness that doesn't stick.

| Nov 10, 2020

If you enjoyed No Country for Old Men, O, Brother Where Art Thou? or True Grit, this is a welcome return for the Coens to the western genre.

| Nov 4, 2020

The whole shebang is expertly put together and viewers are guaranteed plenty of darkly comic fun and one or two wistful moments, too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2020

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is deliciously misanthropic, despite the Coen Brothers' protesting otherwise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2020

The Coen Brothers make the genre transitions seem easy. There is a little of everything we love about them in this unique piece. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Individual segments succeed as scaffolding to an overarching thematic arc or as a stand-alone narrative piece, but rarely both at once.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2020

A strangely moving exercise in looking at mortality in ways we don't often do so. The Coens still know how to surprise us with both their writing and their philosophy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 1, 2020

I feel the most hackneyed artificiality when it resorts to the audiovisual rhetoric that is characteristic of the directors' aesthetics to honor stereotypes of a Wild West. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 27, 2020