Noah Adams

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a good film. In fact, it's a very good film. A masterful take on black comedy, with powerful acting throughout and beautiful cinematography a focus throughout - Three Billboards is no doubt deserving of the praise it is getting as a piece of cinema. However, the messages it sends through its narrative and characters may be tone deaf, and misguided in a political landscape as volatile as the one of 21st Century America - preaching forgiveness no matter what at times, but completely irrational acts of violence at others. The positives of the film are still evident from the very outset. Three Billboards brings out a career performance from Frances McDormand as the kick-ass Mildred Hayes - her performance brings the fire to a role which could have easily fallen flat with a less supreme performance - to hear any name other than McDormand's called out at the Oscars would be a true shock. Woody Harrelson makes the character of Chief W