The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

• Year: 2018
• Released: 09 Nov 2018
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 3 Oscars. 7 wins & 41 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6412452/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ballad_of_buster_scruggs
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
• Runtime: 133 min
• Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jack London
• Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
• Cast: Tim Blake Nelson, Willie Watson, Clancy Brown
• Keywords: musical, prostitute, anthology, parody, native american,

	7.3/10
	79/100
	89% – Critics
	77% – Audience

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Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Movie Reviews

Smart, Well Done & Boring

How do you rate a movie that is very well done, but you just don’t connect with it at all? I love the Coen brothers, and I watched this with an open heart. Not every Coen brothers movie knocks it out of the park, but all of them are at least smart and interesting. The same holds true for this one, though I’m sorry to say that I found myself bored throughout most of it.

Six stories is a lot to process in one sitting. The problem for me was that I would be watching one of the segments, trying to understand its significance or find something to appreciate story-wise, and then we moved on to the next tale.

There was nothing wrong with it and I would consider watching it again some time with a fresh perspective. This movie did seem to have a grasp on itself and I trust that the Coens knew what they were doing. It was very unique and beautifully shot, but I think this one ranks low on the Coen’s filmography. And if this wasn’t a Coen brothers movie, I would probably be more dismissive of it.

More Astounding Moviemaking By The Coen Brothers

This movie has an accumulative effect. The stories range from funny to grim to harrowing to ironic to haunting to horrifying. You barely have time to recover from one before you’re thrust into the next one. The format is set up as a dime Western book where we get to see six of the stories. There is a real authentic western feel to them. A real grit.

Bruno Delbonnel’s cinematography is spectacular. Wide sweeping vistas, majestic mountains, stylized towns, all beautifully captured. There’s also a surreal feel to some the stories. Imagine if ‘Pulp Fiction’ were all western stories. And on that train of thought, TBoBS succeeds in many areas where ‘The Hateful Eight’ did not. A great collection of short movies by the Coen Brothers.

Wow…talk about uneven!

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” is a frustratingly uneven film. It’s made up of six stories all set in the old west and the problem is that the tone and quality of the six segments varies widely. The first is, by far, the best and most interesting…and the only one that has anything to do with Buster Scruggs. The segments about the limbless man seems, to me, to be the most pointless and cruel. And the rest all fall somewhere in between. It’s also very odd, as the first segment was completely comedic…sort of like a Roy Rogers or Gene Autry film with a sociopathic singing cowboy. But, oddly, most of the rest aren’t funny in the least. Because of this, I just felt very frustrated as I watched….it just seemed incoherent overall. I would have much preferred if the first segment had been stretched out to a feature-length film….that would have worked for me. But overall, it just didn’t work….with segments ranging from 10 to 2 in score.