'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri' Review: Everything About This Movie Shouts Oscar's!


🌟 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 🌟 Review 🌟 10/10 🌟 One Of The Best This Year 🌟

So sharply written that it cuts straight to the bone, the third movie from award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh is a dramedy that starts with cleverness and wit, then opens up into something so human. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, features insane, lyrical dialogue that's so good that every single cast member, no matter how little screen time, gives a stunning performance. McDormand in particular hasn't been this good since her Oscar-winning turn in Fargo way back in 1996, this should take her to the oscars again alongside Co-star Sam Rockwell who also easily gave one of the best performances I have seen this year!

Three Billboards never seems too clever for its own good. It's a stronger effort than McDonagh's In Bruges or even Seven Psychopaths; beneath the sparkling verbiage are genuine, complex emotions.

There's hope here -- and love -- but also hate, rage, and grief, but it's true focus is anger. Everything is mixed up in such a bracing way. At the same time, the movie tackles things like murder, cancer, and racism, but never in a way that might seem obvious or pandering.

It's not a movie about suspense or solutions; things are deliberately messy in this world, even if McDonagh presents them in a pin-neat manner, which is bloody genius I might add. Blessed with pitch-perfect cinematography and production design, the movie offers many great scenes and literally no bad ones. But nothing quite prepares you for the final scene, a thoughtful, human moment that should resonate for some time.

I'm so glad I haven't done my list of best movies of 2017 just yet because this is definetly in it and I wouldn't want it missing out!

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