 here s something new from the coen brothers an anthology of short films based on a fictional book of western tales featuring tim blake nelson as a murderous whitehatted singing cowboy james franco as a bad luck bankrobber liam neeson as the impresario of a traveling medicine show with increasingly diminishing returns tom waits as a diehard gold prospector zoe kazan and bill heck as two shy people who almost come together on the wagon trail and tyne daly saul rubinek brendan gleeson chelcie ross and jonjo o neill as a motley crew on a stagecoach to nowhere each story is distinct but joined by the unifying thematic thread of mortality as a whole movie experience  buster scruggs is wildly entertaining and like all coen films endlessly surprising an annapurna production and netflix release joel coen ethan coen mostra internazionale d arte cinematografica new york film festival 