Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

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  Elmntsofmadness

  10 / 10

  Writer/director Marin McDonagh is no stranger to tackling difficult or challenging material. His first feature, "In Bruges", centered on a hitman having an existential crisis, while his second, "Seven Psychopaths", focused on a screenwriter sucked into a world of gangsters and psychotic killers. Despite their violent concepts, both films surprisingly focus on introspective examination to move their stories forward. In this way, their stories are more about the ways violence affects the characters versus how the characters create violence. In many ways, McDonagh’s "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" continues this tradition while also being the most violent yet. Centered on three grief-stricken individuals who are forced to face their own culpability for their lives, "Three Billboards", challenges not only the characters and their level of responsibility, but also the audience and their assumptions. What results is a tragedy-filled comedy whose parts combine to create the best film I’ve seen in 2017.
  
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