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  Review by Melissa Tamminga ★ 477

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Random (very spoilery) notes:

  -The title/place name is oddly specific for such a nondescript town/place. Why the title? Is the town name important? Is it a small town? Large town? Small enough for one character to know about another character’s illness, but too big for hospital staff to know they shouldn’t put the perpetrator of violence in the same room with the victim of his violence? (But also, the hospital is so small-town they don’t have a separate burn unit?)

  -Raped, murdered girl (who remains almost totally personality-less - except for being rage-y and teenager-y) at the center of a story again? Guess we’re going to continue to squeeze every last drop of we can out of that beautiful dead…

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★½ 8

  more movies with frances mcdormand threatening to kill all rapists please

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  Review by Lucy ★ 73

  best picture showcase: film #3

  this is such an ugly movie. it tries to show it’s heart at times, but it’s still as cold as ice. the characters and what they go through have no meaning and no emotional impact on me at all, except disgust or boredom. the script is frustrating and sloppy and often times offensive even when it tries to be the opposite. only a few jokes really land, the rest feel forced, as does everything else

  the main cast does their best, but only frances really shines through the mucky aura this whole thing gives off. sam rockwell has deserved attention for a long time, but not for this performance, not for this character. the whole…

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 11

  i work as a designer in a signage company and everyday i work in fear sam rockwell will yeet me out the window

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★ 21

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  good
  • the scene of mildred and willoughby at the police station
  • frances mcdormand, sam rockwell, and samara weaving's comedic delivery (and acting in general)
  • "... penelope said ‘begets?’"
  • the theme of "the only way to reach justice is to let go of anger" and how it affects mildred and dixon's actions

  bad
  • the handling of race in this movie is awful (literally the easiest solution was to make red welby a black person and have him deliver the lesson willoughby's note gave to dixon, but nope)
  • the... deer?? why????
  • this movie doesn't make any comment about rape at all. it just uses it as a plot device, and doesn't even give a shit…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 24

  One of the finest and most sociopolitically relevant/culturally insightful films of the century so far.

  From here on out, can every movie flawlessly balance comedy & tragedy as well as this and Manchester by the Sea?

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★½ 38

  Okay. I’m using this review as my opportunity to talk a little about the films of Martin McDonagh, which I watched this week after seeing “The Banshees of Inisherin” last month.

  I liked “Banshees.” It was quiet, contemplative, a little mean at times, and quite beautiful. I thought Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson were marvelous, although the standout performances, in my view, were from Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan. I thought the film worked both as a self-contained drama and as an allegory, of sorts, for conflict and especially civil conflict of the kind that forms the setting of the film itself. With that in mind, I thought I would watch the rest of McDonagh’s features, to see if I…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 38

  agree to disagree.

  (the most misunderstood
  movie of 2017, in my book)

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  Review by kyle ★★★ 10

  me: *places three billboards outside my house in portland, oregon*

  billboard one: best twink actor in hollywood

  billboard two: yet still no fandom

  billboard three: fuck me, lucas hedges

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  Review by maria ★★★★ 4

  i'm a graphic designer and i'm tellin' you, those damn billboards are fugly

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  Review by Ian Fastert ★ 45

  Wow.

  Three Billboards, Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the biggest waste of talented actors on a terrible (and I mean TERRIBLE. We'll get there soon) script since the fucking Star Wars prequels. To say this boringly shot dumpster fire of a film is undeserving of the recognition it's getting would be an understatement; for proper justice, they should go back and replace all the footage of this winning with videos of Christopher Plummer.

  
  
  

  I understand, first off. To the people who like this, I understand that this is an original and interesting story (in concept) and that the acting is aces from everyone here. But as someone who has come up with a whole lot of ideas for movies, I can…

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★½ 2

  rewatched:

  liked it even more the second time. this thing is almost a masterpiece. something i’ll be watching over and over again.