The Ballad of Buster Scruggs's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
The Coens are in inspired form with this macabre, gonzo Western.
Rolling Stone
The gallows humor of their fatalistic "Ballad" allows the filmmakers to do what they do best: laugh in the face of death.
The Guardian
Franco, Neeson and Waits traipse across the prairie in a lovingly crafter collection of vignettes spattered with bloody violence and inky humor.
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Variety
Since the episodes are uneven in quality (though the best of them seize and hold you), you may feel that it's too much of a just-okay thing.
The Hollywood Reporter
This little Western anthology is minor Coen Brothers, worth checking out on Netflix, but of very limited potential theatrically.
Screen Daily
It doesn't reinvent the Coens' sardonic, measured aesthetic, but the anthology's looser structure allows them a friskiness that is welcome.
The Wrap
'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' will be, at best, a charming footnote in the Coens' career (...) It's a pretty good one, but be ready to love some episodes more than others.
Indiewire
Intermittenly funny, gorgeous, and patience-trying 130 minutes, but fans will find plenty of gems in this messy assemblage of Coen brothers motifs.
Time
A book of cowboy tales written in movie language (...) This anthology stars out at a jaunty canter and becomes progressively more grim.
The Playlist
As a whole, the film has to be chalked down to a perplexingly minor addition to one of the most beloved cinematic canons of our time.