![Sharply written and grimly humorous, this Coen Brothers effort starring Tim Blake Nelson is worth a night in. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” premiers on Netflix Nov. 16. Photo Credit: Netflix](/images/resized/images/news/2016/189_nov16/9_100_100.jpg)
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Running Time: 132 minutes
This film premieres Nov. 16 on Netflix.
Right now, the world seems like a nasty, harsh place. There can be little doubt that the Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men) feel that way, too, tackling some of the crueler aspects of life in their latest film. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an anthology, containing six individual stories about a bevy of characters living in the old West.
While many movies in this genre are grandiose and display heroic individualism on the part of its protagonists, this movie does something quite different. In this Western, pioneer life is short, brutish and inhumane.
It may not seem like a...