Alicia I love this movie so much

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

shourbagyk I have been waiting to know the rapist and what will happen to him after all of these 1 hour and 55 minutes' events and scenes and the movie has just ended safely with nothing at all for me.

Cwantacuda OK, let me start by saying this was a good movie. The only thing I didn't like was the ending I really wanted to know how the trip was going end. I know that was the point of the ending it had but dang I wanted to know what was going to happen next! From the beginning to the end it keeps pulling you in to the story of who done it with a lot of good and not overly done comic relief to keep you interested. You want to know who the killer is so bad which is why I highly recommend this movie as a must see.

dizozza I recommend reading my comments after seeing the movie, but if you never intend to see it, read them now: The script gives its characters words we should not expect them to say, to express insights that should surprise us. The characters follow the path to cinematic fulfillment (the movie leads to a road trip). For all its appearance of social consciousness, Three Billboards is an entertainment. The artful ways the movie delivers platitudes makes the platitudes seem fresh. The characters must be in darkness (since they're from Missouri?) before discovering that they can move into the light. They're supposedly racist and bigoted -- what does that have to do with finding or failing to find a rapist/murderer? Now that I have asked, I offer an answer. The practice of racism and bigotry breaks down its practitioner's will to work overtime, and it reduces the incentive to explore the unknown. Movie vengeance, however, is always worth the extra effort. To demonstrate the degree to which one can work overtime, the fired police officer nearly kills himself to catch the monster criminal. Ultimately, there could be a cover-up to protect the accused, who is a desert marine, in order to demonstrate the degree of bias the police can have in favor of veterans over civilians.But the conjecture is for our own amusement. The piece is a construct, filled with incendiary randomness...cancer, suicide, torture, rape, murder, arson (To quote memorable lines from Bob Dylan, "Abe said, where do you want killing done? God said, Out there on Highway 61" ... by the three billboards.). These unexplained initial acts (How low can humans go?) are what make the movie possible.As with Tarrantino movies (which get more entertaining the older they get) some human automaton out there must be willing to do a horrible act in order to test everyone's reactions.In Mr. McDonagh's move (this one), the lines that resonate currently are spoken in the brick-a-brack shop "Did you do it?" Answer: "No." The unspoken further answer for the audience to add later is, "but I've been doing the same thing in Iraq."Yes, I kept watching. Toward the half-way mark the surprises in cross narratives grabbed my attention and held me to the end. That in itself deserves my acknowledgment of efforts of all involved in creating this piece.There is a Nicholas Roeg reference in this movie, which I see discussed elsewhere in the IMDB comments which I did not believe while watching. In the movie, the movie on TV is "Don't Look Now," Mr. Roeg's Venetian Lost Child Thriller. "Don't Look Now" is scary. It doesn't mount social consciousness issues to create self-satisfying entertainment. (I'm thinking the resurgence of socially conscious entertainment began with the 2004 "Crash."I like that this movie ends with the two major stars on a road trip.

chas437 This film checks all the PC/social justice boxes within the first 20 minutes. Rural law enforcement is mocked and berated, white males are portrayed as corrupt, incompetent and racist/sexist. We are informed that one deputy tortures young blacks and homosexuals.In American cinema today, its almost as if there were some sort of PC censorship committee that puts its stamp of approval on all material. This is now THE criteria for winning Academy Awards. If this pattern only happened in one or two films, it might be overlooked. Its in every single serious film produced these days.When you get past all the propaganda, you are left with a pathetic ripoff of a Coen Brothers film. Plot holes and unbelievable coincidence reveal poor, uninspired screen writing. This is a that film that relies way too much on the performances of its cast carry it over the considerable rough patches. Its a strong cast, aside from Woody Harrelson, who has been in TOO many films, such that we're not sure whether he's playing himself or an actual unique person. This is yet another film that reveals the corruption of our film industry by those with political agendas. The state of film critique is also clearly corrupt when this sort of material is rewarded with Oscars. Shameful