Capsule Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2018)

The humorous undertone in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri helps you bear the brutally honest picture of a crime and its aftermath that it paints so magnificently. Watching Frances McDormand play a rebellious mother of a woman who was raped while dying is satisfying to the extent that can only be disturbed by Sam Rockwell's performance as this fiery young policeman who boasts off his racism as his grandest weapon. If not the cliched story, there is enough bulbs of entertainment and social issue treatment to consume here that is topped with some of the most fabulous performances of the year. Woody Harrelson joins the talented cast as the police chief who is torn between the mother's rebellious stunt - iconic in the movie and for the next few decades - and a personal issue to drive the crisply-written film that mocks the law enforcement system and reinforces the theory that man is the biggest and most powerful killer. Other than few slips in Martin McDonagh's writing towards the end, there's not a dull moment in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MIssouri which, if not too cinematic, has some great billboard design and a ritzy ad agency office. Watch it for its relevant theme, incredible performances, the subtle references that are so highly relatable, and the basic idea that of those billboards. TN.