Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Reviews

This is the best movie I’ve seen this year.

...cinematographer Ben Davis perfectly captures the film’s knife-edge balance between humour and horror, mayhem and melancholia.

...is one of those truly rare films that feels both profound and grounded; inspirational without ever manipulatively trying to be so.

This is McDonagh at his most complex, painting entirely in greys as he surveys the cruelties born from barely buried hurts.

...sensational...

McDormand is an absolute force of nature as the grieving mom whose protests set off a twisting war of attrition with the local fuzz.

...a momentous achievement, presenting us with a remarkable female character and topical plot about the conspiracy of silence that pervades our culture.

Vi får præsenteret personerne fuldstændig usminket og må selv tage stilling, både til deres mere menneskelige sider og til de ubehagelige. Alligevel og netop derfor er budskabet klart og tydeligt.

De affyrer McDonaghs suveræne replikker som harpuner og jonglerer med stille selvransagelse og flammende hævntørst, uden at det virker skizofrent. Og uden at det vækker andet end latter og bedrøvelse, gerne på samme tid.