A realistic, intense film with distinct characters and strong performances

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2018)

I had planned to watch the film in question months ago, but then I delved into longer series and so I found time yesterday only... And I am fully satisfied.
Above all, due to characters and performances. They are peculiar, yet, realistic, there is some evolvement, but basics remain, and the events not expected make them disclose their "hidden" values. It is one of the few films where even actors with smaller roles are catchy, starting with Harrelson and Dinklage; McDormand and Rockwell could show their versality again in full and their Academy Awards are well to the point.
The story is leading-edge as well. There is limited "action", but so must be life in a small place, and, as the events progressed, you expected generally a different solution as you saw on the screen later. Tragic and comic moments are in good symbiosis and the ending is nicely "open" - probably not their cup of tea who are fond of usual crime stories - but not creating wtf! or hollow feelings. Simple things have sometimes complicated solutions, yet their depiction is far from simplicity and moralisation.
All in all, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a real gem amidst over-sophisticated and over-flashed films often based on comics (that is why I have moved on from films to series).