The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Most people think so. 79% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 84%.

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride. Wikipedia ↗

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a 2018 American Western anthology film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, consisting of six distinct short stories set in the American frontier. The segments range from a singing gunslinger who is the fastest draw in the West (Tim Blake Nelson), to a bank robber whose execution is repeatedly interrupted (James Franco), to a limbless orator performing Shakespeare in small-town theaters (Liam Neeson and Harry Melling), to a grizzled prospector seeking gold (Tom Waits), to a young woman's covered wagon journey to Oregon (Zoe Kazan), to a stagecoach ride with mysterious passengers (Tyne Daly and Brendan Gleeson). The Coens' trademark blend of dark humor, philosophical fatalism, and gorgeous visual composition ran through each segment, unified by the theme that death is the West's only certainty and arrives without regard to character, virtue, or narrative satisfaction.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay award, and debuted on Netflix.