The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

Despite the snark and irreverence, genre specialists will eat up the devotion to detail here, from the relish the Coens take in writing colourful 19th century Western vernacular to the musical choices and the lovely between-acts artwork. Full Review

This is a film about America... one filled with scenes of bloody vengeance, religious zealotry, romantic idealism, slick salesmanship, incoherent ramblings and sunny optimism. It's absolutely glorious. Full Review

This is a handsomely made picture, with a richly plausible musical score by Carter Burwell; it is an old-school western in many ways and if there is something comic or self-satirising about it, this doesn't mean it is pure pastiche. Full Review

Richly entertaining and blackly funny but told with sincerity and heart, the half-dozen Western tales packed into The Ballad of Buster Scruggs show the Coen brothers loading up their six-shooter and firing barely a blank. Full Review

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a pop fantasia that's interested in the meaning of what a brutal place the Old West really was. Full Review

Once it's time to switch tones, the Coens don't seem to have much to say other than pointing to the well-documented fact that the American frontier was a violent place. Full Review