And we know we’re supposed to root for the white hat. It’s a classic scene, one of the indicators that a film is, indeed, a Western. In Buster Scruggs, that foundational scene is inverted by ...

Starting with "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", cheerful Buster Scruggs, the deadly gunslinger with a lighting-fast right hand and a lovely singing voice, is about to discover that talent alone is ...