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“I was texting back and forth with a good friend about the film’s I had yet to watch in order to complete my yearly Oscar challenge. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was one of them. Not for any deep reason beyond it was on Netflix so what was the rush, really? I think he succinctly put it best in that chat by describing it as thus: “Buster Scruggs is a Coen movie. It’s good but eh.” Short, sweet, and to the point, that agnostic declaration of the film held true for myself when I finally got around to watching it. Comprised of six vignettes, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an anthology set in the American frontier. There’s a certain lack of essential Coen eccentricity here. These stories are misanthropic, blackly comic, violent, and frequently add up to something less than their ” read more
Watched in 2019
