I'm from Missouri

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2018)

Frances McDormand gives her usual hundred carat star turn, at first shaping up like Gladys Glover in 'It Should Happen to You' transplanted into 'Mississippi Burning' territory. But surrounded by such an array of superb, constantly evolving performances from the entire cast it's really an ensemble piece.
The mood, along with the characterisations, fluctuates wildly and unpredictably from the cartoonishly violent (with people bouncing back from injuries that would have kept them in hospital for months) and excessively foul-mouthed to the touchingly nuanced. Plenty of it is as unlikely as it remains compelling, and as photographed by Ben Davis incongruously beautiful to look at, particularly when McDormand is out tending her billboards.