What British screenwriters think rural Americans and cops are like

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2018)

Great performances--every acting Oscar was deserved.
But as others here have mentioned, the characters and dialog are what a bigoted, Guardian-reading playwright would assume of Americans, and American cops. And the real problem is that these faulty assumptions of how real people talk and behave result in a plot full of holes and cliches. Just as in "Crash," if the characters in this movie behaved like actual people, then there would have been very little movie remaining. And that disappoints me, because I really like McDormand, Rockwell, and Harrelson.