1. "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is catnip for Coen fans but (I suspect) a challenging film for more general viewers. It mixes hilarity with horror in Coen-esque way that is an acquired taste. It's a death-saturated Western, perhaps haunted by fear that cinema is dying.
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10. Like all the good Coen films (they're batting .944 right now) it'll repay revisiting & discussion. My colleague
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What would you call No Country for Old Men, if not a Western
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I was about to say this, it’s so totally a Western that’s just not about cowboys.
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The Coens are clever (I mean this in admiration) and have a genuine sense of the tragic
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Fargo is a noir western set in North Dakota!
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