Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
You don't always get the hype about a film, but here it's easy to understand. It really flew by and I wanted it to be much longer. I don't know if you could make this into a series like Fargo though.
Even though it's by Martin McDonagh, it still feels very Coen brothers to me, and not just because of Frances McDormand. There is a similar quirky, black humour; odd music choices to make scenes funnier (there's an opera voice in this); and the general sense of regular people involved in something that's spiralling more and more out of control and getting more and more violent.
There was one scene that didn't entirely make sense to me: when the guy comes into Mildred's store and gets threatening and violent, why didn't she try to get him arrested or at least describe him to the police to have him investigated?
On the whole, the best Coen brothers film not made by the Coens themselves. And I liked it more than I did most of their films after Fargo. Could McDonagh perhaps be the alias of a secret third Coen brother?
You don't always get the hype about a film, but here it's easy to understand. It really flew by and I wanted it to be much longer. I don't know if you could make this into a series like Fargo though.
Even though it's by Martin McDonagh, it still feels very Coen brothers to me, and not just because of Frances McDormand. There is a similar quirky, black humour; odd music choices to make scenes funnier (there's an opera voice in this); and the general sense of regular people involved in something that's spiralling more and more out of control and getting more and more violent.
There was one scene that didn't entirely make sense to me: when the guy comes into Mildred's store and gets threatening and violent, why didn't she try to get him arrested or at least describe him to the police to have him investigated?
On the whole, the best Coen brothers film not made by the Coens themselves. And I liked it more than I did most of their films after Fargo. Could McDonagh perhaps be the alias of a secret third Coen brother?