This is Fargo or Olive Kitteridge-level McDormand, a performance that demands another collaboration between the actor and writer-director McDonagh. She doesnвЂ™t give two f**ks if you like her or not. Her grief is like napalm, threatening to destroy everything and everyone in her path.ДЄ determined woman with a strong motivation, sheвЂ™s every bit as flawed as those around her and sheвЂ™s not immune to behaving horribly. Of course, Three Billboards belongs to McDormand and the righteous, vengeful fury she brings to the role. Setting itself up as a one-woman crusade against institutional apathy or some patriarchal conspiracy - even the music has the twangs of western rebellion - but it then goes somewhere unexpected. Three Billboards deftly plays with your expectations.

Mildred is unrelenting and uncompromising - she wants the government to set up a database with the DNA of every male baby born so it can be used to match sexual violence with its offender - вЂњbe sure and kill вЂ™emвЂќ, she says with no hesitation. Only the outsiders - African-Americans, the bullied billboard vendor (Caleb Landry Jones) and James (Peter Dinklage), a dwarf - seem to be on her side. The stunt is effective and it puts her on the warpath with much of the town establishment.

Her daughterвЂ™s brutal rape and murder seven months earlier is still unsolved with little evidence of an active police investigation.ДЇuelled by grief and a sense of guilt, Mildred rents three disused billboards on a quiet street just outside of her small Missouri town with these simple messages: вЂњRaped while dyingвЂќ, вЂњStill no arrests?вЂќ and вЂњHow come, Chief Willoughby?вЂќ. GIVEN director Martin McDonaghвЂ™s previous work, youвЂ™d expect Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to be darkly funny and wall-to-wall crammed with violence.ДЄnd while it is funny at times and violent at other times, Three Billboards is much more than that.

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