
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen brothers craft a six-part anthology exploring the grim, poetic absurdities of the Old West. Tim Blake Nelson sparkles in the opening chapter as an angelic, white-suited singing gunslinger who blows outlaws to pieces with dizzying casualness before ascending into heaven with a harp. The tone swings wildly from surreal musical slapstick to desolate frontier tragedy, shot with pristine clarity by Bruno Delbonnel. If you appreciate how A Million Ways to Die in the West treated the frontier as a relentlessly inventive slaughterhouse, the Coens' macabre humor and playful subversion of cowboy tropes will hit the exact same funny bone.








