authentic, andry and heartbroken

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2018)

The text of those three billboards establishes a narrative but, though that's the starting point for Martin McDonagh's stellar Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, it doesn't hint at the film's eventual trajectory, that has eventually, shocking moments, karmic twists, and redemption. Thus far, the movie industry hadn't offered anything close to the experience provided by this film, which effectively traverses a high wire between tragedy and comedy. And it does so without a safety net. Outside the Coen Brothers, it's hard to find a filmmaker with that skill and with this production. Frances McDormand is by far the star of the film, so talented that she is absolutely supreme with her layered mother struggling to deal with a daughter's death. Overall something close to a masterpiece.