

It contains both the most moving scene I saw in a theater this year and the most mordant bit of black comedy.


It is by turns heartbreaking, harrowing in its violence, and very, very funny, and it features Oscar-level performances by Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell. Rather, it is a film that continually complicates and recomplicates itself, denying viewers the comfort of easy moral footing. And Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is assuredly not that movie. The Joyful Pandering of Spider-Man: No Way Home David Simsīut Martin McDonagh is not a typical writer-director.
