Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Martin McDonagh · 115 min · Dark Comedy Crime Drama
Three Billboards is a film powered entirely by its performances and a script that refuses to offer easy comfort about grief, justice, or who deserves redemption. McDormand delivers one of the great performances of the decade, and Rockwell matches her in a role that demands more than it appears to. The ending won't satisfy everyone, and the film's handling of race remains a legitimate point of criticism. But as an exercise in dark, funny, morally complicated filmmaking, it delivers far more than most.