One of the best movies of 2017! (Spoiler free review)

Rating: 10/10 (3 February 2018)

I saw this movie because I knew of its Oscar buzz and I wanted to see if it's worth it. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tels the story of Mildred Hayes who 7 months after her daughter died and with the police not doing anything to try to catch the culprit, she posts three billboards to let anyone know how incompetent the police men are. From there the whole town jumps on her and we got ourselves a movie.
This movie reminded me of other great movies that I saw, because the movie itself is very realistic and very original in its concept, you know the feeling when you watch too much garbage for too long and then a diamond like this movie comes along and reminds you that there can be great movies every year. It also takes you in directions that you never expected the movie to go (I mean literally, not like Star Wars The Last Jedi where there were no new directions) and pretty much reminded me of movies like The Dark Knight or Fight Club or Shawshank Redemption for instance. I was at times "Wow, I was completely not expecting that and that is awesome!" due to some unexpected twist and due to the fact that the story always had something new to offer and show to me. Another thing I'd like to point out are the performances which were all top-notch. Starting with Frances McDormand who was just awesome in this role and I understand why she got nominated for an oscar (which she'll probably win too), then Sam Rockwell who was just brilliant in his character which evolved throughout the movie, then Woody Harrelson too and not to forget to mention Peter Dinklage who for the amount of screen time he gets does a magnificent job with his performance. Another thing that I really appreciated in the movie was the vulgarity. Now hold your horses... I'm not saying that I like a movie more if it has language vulgarity I'm just saying I liked how and when it was used in this film. It wasn't like F-bomb here and there all the time to make the movie more bad-ass because it has vulgarity and not a good story but it was used with finese only when it should have been. I mean persons that had a motive for using it were using it or if the situation (like the trailer shows) needed vulgarity in order to get some things straight (unlike in Logan where it was used just to improve the movie while being never encountered in any Wolverine movie before). The score was also very good... and it was really nice to see a realistic movie having a great score, it really amplifies the overall value of the movie. If I had one problem with the movie, it might be the ending which for me was a little underwhelming but it didn't ruin the overall enjoyment I had with this movie.
In conclusion, really great movie with great story, performances and music worthy of all the nominations it got and worthy of many wins also because this movie is along with Dunkirk my favorite movie of 2017. 10/10