Entertainment Ebbing....

Rating: 6/10 (25 January 2018)

Disappointing. Winner of Golden Globe, SAG and nominated for an Oscar? If this is the best HW can do, this year may set a record for dearth of quality in the film industry.
If you've read the critics, you know that there are some positives, with sporadic moments involving entertaining lines and watchable acting. But they are the exception in this meandering, exploitative, manipulative mish mash. Some characters are such overblown stereotypes that, at times, the film resembles a bad night on SNL. I can't count the number of improbable, villainous strawmen the the writer self righteously and repeatedly mows down. He must have been going for the world record in virtue posing, to say nothing of the tired, old, excessive use of juvenile profanity that's been embarrassing the big screen since the 70's.
There are so many vices, that to recite them all would require more time than this movie is worth. Although the inexplicable fawning over this effort continues with several Oscar nominations, including screenplay and editing, at least the Academy had the sense to omit McDonagh from the direction category. At least they got something right.