Week in Review: The Coen Brothers Go West, Strangely

It's a pity the title "A Million Ways to Die in the West" was already taken, because it would have been perfect for the new film by Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The movie is an anthology modeled on an old-timey book of ...

October 14 2018

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