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Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2019)

With already two Best Picture awards this year (Golden Globes and Baftas) tucked neatly under it's belt, Three Billboards... seems poised to take home the Oscar tomorrow. So from the beginning, I was waiting for the moment when it'd hit me and make me realize that yep, this movie's going home with the award. So I kept waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Until the end credits started showing.
So here I am trying to replay the movie in my head thinking I might have missed out on the movie's Oscar moment. I mean the movie is about a grieving mother, who rents out three billboards in Ebbing, Missouri, advertising the ineptitude (or implying since it was in the form of a question) of the local cops in solving the rape and murder of her daughter seven months before. The cast includes Frances McDormand as the mother who will do anything to get the police's attention back on her daughter's case. Woody Harrelson is the beloved chief of police who's at the twilight of his life due to a terminal illness. Sam Rockwell as the local bully wearing a uniform and has a gun but can't seem to find his badge. There's also Peter Dinklage who may have had lots of free time since Game of Thrones didn't start shooting again until late last year.
Great acting from McDormand. A little overacting from Rockwell. Questionable supporting nominations for him and Harrelson. Hashtag #justiceforMichaelStuhlbarginCMBYN. All in all a good movie but it never really took off for me.