Funny, brutal and breathtakingly beautiful. Two exceptionally raw lead performances, supercharged by a bold script from Martin McDonagh, could make Three Billboards this year’s Awards-upsetter.
The rumours are true – this an absolute joy.
Martin McDonagh’s fiercely written, stabbingly pleasurable tragicomedy.
Director Martin McDonagh has written a clever, gripping story brilliantly performed by McDormand whose expressive eyes show every thought and capture the depths of her pain.
The film’s scabrous exploration of prejudice remains very much on the surface. Still, McDormand’s blazing performance is impossible to deny.
What follows is one of the finest black comedies I have seen this century.
Frances McDormand excels as a mother taunting the police to uncover the truth about her daughter’s death.
A bracing tragicomedy as blunt as its central conceit.
McDormand is an unstoppable force in a fiercely intelligent, profanely poetic movie that shifts tonal gears at breakneck speed.
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