Review: ‘The Devil All the Time’: The Road to Chaos is Paved with Good Actors

Antonio Campos’ new Netflix film, The Devil All the Time, can be called many things; but subtle is not one of them. There are not many words in the English language to quantify the insanity of this picture. Truly, the most accurate description is that all 138 minutes are completely bonkers. This multi-generataional epic follows the lives of several families connected to Knockemstiff, Ohio from the mid-1940’s to the 1960’s. Continue reading “Review: ‘The Devil All the Time’: The Road to Chaos is Paved with Good Actors” →

Review: The Coens Combine Anthology Short Films with the Wild West in ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’

Of recent, Netflix has been snagging up auteurs left and right to produce content for them. In the past, it included the likes of Cary Fukunaga, Noah Bombach, and Dee Rees, but this year, they brought out the big canons. In the hopes of vying for Oscar nominations that can convert to Oscar wins, they scoped up Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma (which has a very good chance of winning it all), and, the subject of our discussion, the Coen Brother’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. 

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