Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Martin McDonagh's blistering black comedy gives the Oscar-winning actress the role of a lifetime.

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Frances McDormand gives a brutally great performance in topical 'Three Billboards'

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The lion’s share of credit, however, must undoubtedly go to McDormand and Rockwell, who have seldom if ever been quite so arresting. They easily dominate the screen during Three Billboards many scenes of conflict but it’s in the film’s quieter moments that we really marvel at their skill.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is Martin McDonagh’s most emotional and profound film to date.

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Martin McDonagh’s third feature puts the soul of an Ozarks town on display.

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Frances McDormand plays a grieving mother driven by an implacable thirst for justice in Martin McDonagh's darkly comedic drama, which also stars Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell.

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Those are somewhat minor quibbles, however. What immediately comes to the forefront is that McDonagh has choreographed an almost impossible feat of a brutally dark comedy that, thanks to both Rockwell and McDormand, elicits an emotional response you simply don’t see coming.

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The film is the finest balance yet of Martin McDonagh’s bleak sense of humor and offbeat moral sincerity.

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Bleak, funny ‘Three Billboards’ unearths a small town’s dark side.

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The unpredictable Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri pits Frances McDormand against the world.

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Frances McDormand is at her quirky humane best as a grieving small-town mom who goes to extremes in Martin McDonagh's meditation on loss, rage, and the war dance between the sexes.

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Not since "Fargo" (1996) has [McDormand] found a character of such fibre. She doesn't pitch it to us, still less try to make it palatable; she seems to state Mildred, presenting her as a given fact, like someone unrolling a map.

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Frances McDormand is a force in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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For a while it’s engaging but pretty thin. Then it gets more interesting, especially for the actors.

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His (Martin McDonagh) movie fuses naturalism and hysterically pitched theatricality with sometimes uneasy, but bracing results.

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However commanding and absorbing Three Billboards may be, the film is diminished by its neatness and unconvincing resolutions to the many dilemmas it puts into play.

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Everything fits together too neatly in “Three Billboards,” even when chaos descends, but the performers add enough rough texture so that it doesn’t always feel so worked.

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McDormand could have carried this film all the way through a minefield of touchy topics, singed but with all parts in the right place, primed for a painful laugh. But goddamnit if the cops in this story didn’t ruin all the fun.

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