The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

“Half-fish, half-fowl and altogether inspired, it is a dazzling mosey through the creeks and canyons of the Coenesque, whose scattershot format and by turns bizarre and macabre sense of humour belies a formal ingenuity and surgical control of tone that keeps the viewer perpetually off-guard.”

Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100

“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.”

Lorry Kikta, Film Threat · 100

“What’s most bewitching throughout “Scruggs” is its sense of detail. Its meshing of formal discipline and screwed-down content sometimes give it the sense of a work that has been carefully and elaborately embroidered rather than photographed.”

Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com · 100

“The Coens’ newest Western, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, might be their bleakest work of all, and one of their richest.”

David Edelstein, New York Magazine (Vulture) · 100

““The Mortal Remains” brings all these tales together beautifully, by which I mean in a coda that is somber and hauntingly unsettled, like the last note of a dirge. Its music lingers in the air long after the closing credits.”

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post · 100