Joel and Ethan Coen have tackled the Western genre before with “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000) and “True Grit” (2010), but their new Netflix anthology film, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” is a marked departure from those, if only in its structure. It tells six disconnected stories that range from upbeat to tragic, to both all at once. How are critics responding to this latest offbeat genre piece, which started streaming on Friday, November 9?
As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 80 based on 25 reviews, all of them classified as positive, though a few of them more ambivalent than others. And the film has a Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating of 95% based on 55 reviews (only 3 classified as “rotten”). Taken together, those scores indicate a lot of love for this collection of short stories, and very little outright dislike.
Individual reviews are describing the film as “another piece of Coen...
As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 80 based on 25 reviews, all of them classified as positive, though a few of them more ambivalent than others. And the film has a Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating of 95% based on 55 reviews (only 3 classified as “rotten”). Taken together, those scores indicate a lot of love for this collection of short stories, and very little outright dislike.
Individual reviews are describing the film as “another piece of Coen...
- 11/9/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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