Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Those familiar with McDonagh’s work will be unsurprised to learn that Three Billboards is a bold and showboating affair, robustly drawn and richly written; a violent carnival of small-town American life. Yet it has a big, beating heart, even a rough-edged compassion for its brawling inhabitants.”

  Xan Brooks, The Guardian · 100

• “It all makes for soaringly satisfying viewing, yet the satisfaction comes from blistering performances and virtuosic screenwriting, and absolutely nothing else.”

  Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100

• “McDonagh’s latest work is simply exceptional; a film so rich with narrative fluidity, profane laughs, standout performances and complex character studies that its tremendous emotional hits–often arriving when you least expect them–might just leave you agog.”

  Rory O'Connor, The Film Stage · 100

• “It is a movie about how anger consumes and destroys, and how the only cure for that anger is empathy, something that’s in short supply these days but Three Billboards has in abundance.”

  Matt Singer, ScreenCrush · 100

• “Anger is an energy in Martin McDonagh’s brilliant Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, one of the best films of the year.”

  Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com · 100