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The Coen Brothers’ ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Is American Myth in Vignette

The Coen Brothers’ ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Is American Myth in Vignette

In the Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, there's something altogether new about having revisionist western ideas filtered through their rich sense of character, black comedy, and their penetrating awareness of humanity's fatal imperfections.

Surveying the World As It Twists and Turns: Ten Classics From the Criterion Collection

Surveying the World As It Twists and Turns: Ten Classics From the Criterion Collection

Keeping your head above the flood of Blu-rays is easier when buoyed by Gilda and Mrs. Robinson.

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 – Male

No Country for Old Men

The Ladykillers (2004)

The Ladykillers (2004)

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

The Coen’s ‘Fargo’ Is Turned Inside Out

The Coen’s ‘Fargo’ Is Turned Inside Out

Fargo is a genre film turned inside out, which means that it maintains an obvious affection for the conventions that it’s twisting.