VIDEO : ?The Ballad of Buster Scruggs? Is An Entertaining Western That Peaks Early

It?s only fitting that the Coen Brothers new project is backed by Netflix since it?s a Western-themed anthology film that plays like the forced-binge experience of an anthology TV series. While the Coens claim in the press notes for ?The Ballad of Buster Scruggs? that they were inspired by ?those films made in Italy in the ?60s which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,? they were apparently so inspired that they made an anthology movie as wildly uneven as the ones they?re aping.