Is everyone hypnotized?

Rating: 2/10 (29 January 2018)

I don't get the praise being heaped upon this film at all. Yes, Frances McDormand is great. Yes, Woody Harrelson is great. But, overall this film came across as a bit of a mess. It seemed like the script was written in one sitting by three guys drinking beer:
"I know, let's make the woman firebomb the police station! That'll be great!"
"Let's throw in one scene of the daughter just so people know she was pretty."
"We'll add a clever twist so people think this nutcase is the killer, but, wait for it.......HE'S NOT."
While the film strives for realism in most everything, it destroys that by the insane actions of just about everyone around. A cop thrashes an innocent man in front of the whole town. A grieving mother firebombs a police station. Abandoned billboards on a barely used section of road cost $5,000 per month?
The Academy can throw all of the awards they want at this thing, but I think Woody Harrelson did the right thing. He blew his brains out just before this film got really stupid.