Bring your children.Ĭinematographer Ben Davis has made sure that the sleepy town stays the canvas for this masterstroke of a story. It’s a profane and profound masterpiece that will evolve into a time capsule of sorts, when things get better. It not only aspires towards greatness, but confronts it, screams at it, and when it has everyone’s attention, revels in it. Three Billboards strives for such a microscopic sweet spot tonally that the fact that it not only finds it, but sustains it for two hours, is miraculous. Ratings: 5/5 Review By: Rohan Naahar Site:Hindustan Times One of the movies that could easily fly under the radar if it wasn’t receiving all the awards buzz, ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ is an unassuming film that surprises you with its provocative subject matter and evocative performances that are hard to forget.
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ poses an intriguing moral dilemma – can revenge be as bad as the crime itself? It also looks at how tragedy can affect different people, but its biggest achievement is in testing your perspective of how quickly we tend to judge people without knowing what truly drives them. Ratings: 4/5 Review By: Neil Site:Times Of India Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’s insistence to tidy up the mess through coincidences and contrivances, force an almost overnight change of heart and absolve a vitriolic creature with sure enough history of racial violence is not only unconvincing but defeats all its justice-seeking ideals.If, unlike me, you can set these ethical differences aside, the McDormand steamroller is one hell of an engaging viewing. Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff Instead, it both sears your soul and leaves you unsatisfied. It doesn’t provide any comforting answers. What is the boundary of a mother’s rage? Exactly when does the desire for revenge become corrosive? Can grief twist a person so completely that it becomes difficult to sympathize? Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri grapples with these difficult questions. Ratings: 3.5/5 Review By: Anupama Chopra Site:Filmcompanion I’m going with four and a half out of five. I first caught it at the Zurich Film Festival in September last year, and five months later I’m still dazzled by its brilliance.Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, some complicated racial politics notwithstanding, is a clever, gripping film that you do not want to miss. One of the big frontrunners in this year’s Oscar race, anointed with as many as seven nominations, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a film unlike anything one might have seen lately. Ratings: 4.5/5 Review By: Rajeev Masand Site:News18 From All the Top Indian Critics reviews on the web