Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

R

2017

1h 55m

Crime

Drama

Comedy

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After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon -- an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence -- gets involved, the battle is only exacerbated.

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Critics Consensus

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri deftly balances black comedy against searing drama -- and draws unforgettable performances from its veteran cast along the way.

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

Livemint

07/29/2019

McDonagh takes the audience's loyalty and swings it around, taking you on an emotionally volatile, but fascinating, drive-by in rural America.

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Anupama Chopra

Film Companion

09/05/2018

3.5/5

...tragic, comic, violent, tender and heartbreaking.

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

09/05/2018

4/4

Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri unfolds as a typical revenge vigilantly ploy, and could have stayed so under normal direction and screenwriting. Instead, it gets turned into one of the best pictures of the year.

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Clayton Schuster

Vague Visages

12/06/2023

If Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri carries a lesson or otherwise some underlying thought, then it must be that the abusers of power are struck and wounded, too, and that forgiveness and understanding offer a difficult, if imperfect, salve.

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Serena Seghedoni

Loud and Clear Reviews

11/04/2023

5/5

don't read any spoilers, don't think about the plot, don't even watch the trailer if you can: just get yourself a ticket and go see this film. I guarantee it will be one of the best movies you will see this year.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

09/04/2023

3/5

When the pressures of guilt and honesty are applied to its many characters, their truer traits and flaws come to the surface like rain drawing out new blooms of promise or the nightcrawler worms of hidden ugliness.

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Scott M

@RT75128960 Jul 20

Still good after watching it a second time 10 years later. McDormand and Rockwell are stand outs. Frances should have won for this and not that other film 3 years later.

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Brandon E.

@beespray989 Jun 22

Sam Rockwell FTW again. Mcdormand and Woody are great here too. It’s a heart breaking story involving loss that will give you a nice cry. It’s a real touch on how the system in America gets in its own way and how frustrating it is for everyone involved. Family trauma and it’s a good solid ending.

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S. O

@Col._Angus Jun 19

This is a powerful film at times, and it has some comedy in it that actually seems to diminish the overall storytelling. I liked it a lot. It just could have been a tiny bit better.

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Jay W

@RT52162311 Jun 3

This movie does not waste any time getting started. The inciting incident, that being the eponymous billboards, is set up before the 5-minute mark. And the tight efficient story telling doesn't stop there. This movie takes what could be a TV series season worth of conflict and manages to get it down to under 2 hours. I would love to see more from these characters in a sequel, prequel or spinoff. But this movie always seems to know the exact right number of scenes to have characters in to keep the story flowing. This can be a hard film to pin down. It's too depressing to be a comedy, it's too ambiguous to be a mystery and too mundane to be a thriller. But at the same time, it's too good not to recommend.

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Thomas H.

@Hitman777gb May 31

The movie was very good, but the ending I didn’t like at all

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Christina D.

@NinaNinaBobina May 17

Such an incredibly powerful and deeply saddening movie. Powerhouse acting and directing taking you on a roller coaster of emotions

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Synopsis

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon -- an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence -- gets involved, the battle is only exacerbated.

Director: Martin McDonagh
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Production Co: Fox Searchlight, Film4, Blueprint Pictures
Rating: R (Some Sexual References|Language Throughout|Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 22, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 13, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.1M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)