Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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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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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

Jul 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

Sep 5, 2018

3.5/5

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

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Robert Daniels

812filmreviews

Sep 5, 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

Dec 6, 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

Nov 4, 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

Sep 4, 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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Saul R

@saulio Sep 25, 2026

Totally sublime. This is what good movie making is all about. Interesting characters, good script, phenomenal acting. I really loved this movie. How the writer turned an incredibly awful series of events into a comedy with such skill and wit is amazing. The leads really nailed their parts. I'm very late to the party on this one. I think the strange title turned me off sadly. Best movie ive seen in ages.

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J H

@UpstateNYThriller Sep 16, 2026

8.4/10 Drama, Mystery Good movie Movie about a woman whose daughter is raped and burned alive. She puts up billboards that infuriate the local police department. Small town vibe, incompetence. Woody Harrelson is in it.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 6, 2026

Francis D makes this a 4.5 star Movie

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Frans B

@FransB Aug 27, 2026

Brilliant. Very well written and directed. Stellar cast all excel in character. Very real life feel to it. Tragic, emotional, heartbreaking, filled with drama, loss, sheer will and intrigue. Captivating and entertaining

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Michael P

@MikeP29 Aug 26, 2026

An absolute firecracker of a movie that has so much to say and yet does it in not so many words. The Dickson character arc will stay with me for a long time to come

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Harry F

@RT86741986 Aug 10, 2026

Really wanted to love this movie but very unsatisfying nothing burger. Funny and interesting and + cast, but just building up to nothing

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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)

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