The most important film of 2017, and probably the most relevant to #MeToo.

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2018)

Three Billboards is an angry film that is a very front-on criticism about police inaction and how our general push to have justice for those of us long-gone, and how relevant public awareness truly is, especially that of unresolved murder cases pressuring the law to act as best as it possibly can. And at the forefront of this cinematic milestone is Frances McDormand and her Oscar-winning performance as Mildred Hayes, an embattled mother who still wants justice for her dead daughter.
As a black-comedy, this film works with its outright shocking and laugh-out-loud humor that would have been impossible in another movie, yet even with all the black humor at play here, there's also an equally strong sense of tragedy and pessimism about the whole thing. Three Billboards is the rare kind of movie where the drama is EQUALLY as potent as the flashes of black humor that you see playing throughout the story. There's humor relating to dwarfism, racism, and even suicide; and it's all totally relevant to the characters in the movie.
This film is a downer but it's one that does have glimpses of optimism throughout its depressing story, and it's actually too important for this day and age to be ignored. This is truly a film that needs to be watched by everyone wanting to start a fight for real justice in the real world.
Confronting, funny, absolutely sincere and too important to pass up; 5/5 stars.