it is a different film altogether. I liked the story of Busker and he golddigger, who was played by Tom Waits.

Really enjoyed this movie as it was different; love the notion of coen bros directing an anthology and the different ways hey told stories of the Wild West though two of them didn’t end satisfyingly for me- the best are the ballad of buster Scruggs and the gal who got rattled. Very strong filmmaking and beautiful cinematography with great moments from the cast. Will watch again as soon as it’s on Netflix.

In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the West isn’t a source of nostalgic pride or a place we ought to willingly, lovingly reinhabit, like some auteurist-friendly Westworld. Rather, it’s where our great American myths go to die. Buster Scruggs isn’t an act of mourning; it’s laying all that to rest.

It’s a strange, grimly comic collection offering many grotesque sight gags, the occasional moment of seriousness and a general wash of melancholic, photogenic, elegiac Old West atmosphere. I liked the least jokey tale the best; by the time it came along, in the fifth-out-of-six slot, I’d had it with the kidding.

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Saddle up for a rowdy, rip-snorting, hilarity-and-hellfire western full of riding, fighting, hanging, shooting, gold prospecting and bloody massacres — plus silly songs, a limbless poet, cowboy love rituals and philosophical musings about the inevitability of dying. Yes, it’s all in one movie. Who does things like that? Try Joel and Ethan Coen.

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone