Roiling with righteous fury, Mildred hatches a plan to push for justice in the unsolved case: she pays for three billboards shaming the Ebbing, Missouri police department. If the horror-loving Del Toro taps the brakes a bit with Water, the profane playwright-screenwriter-director McDonagh ( In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) floors his own sensibility, with exhilarating and reckless results.įrances McDormand stars as Mildred Hayes, the soul-scarred mother of a teenage girl raped and murdered seven months before the film begins. Despite its vehicle of bestiality, Guillermo Del Toro’s Water has yet to stoke noticeable anger from its otherwise tasteful Cold War fable of loving compassion amidst self-serving zealotry, but Billboards traffics in the institutional failures plaguing American police departments and their communities, making pointed reference to the injustices suffered by black citizens. In direct proportion to its visibility, Billboards has proven increasingly controversial and divisive, and not without good reason. While The Shape of Water earned the most Golden Globe nominations (plus a “Best Director” win) and, subsequently, the most Oscar nominations by a wide margin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’s Globe wins for “Best Motion Picture – Drama,” “Best Screenplay,” “Best Actress – Drama” and “Best Supporting Actor – Drama” suggested at the time frontrunner status for Martin McDonagh’s film. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition (2009)Īs the “stakes” rise during Oscar season, shots fire from different camps toward the top contenders.
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