Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Mildred Hayes, a woman in her fifties, is still waiting months after her teenage daughter was raped and murdered. No arrest has been made, and she has come to believe the police in her small town of Ebbing, Missouri, have stopped trying. Her son wants to move on, but she cannot, so she rents three billboards on the road into town and puts a public message on them aimed at William Willoughby, the police chief everyone else admires. The signs divide the community. When Officer Jason Dixon, Willoughby's volatile second-in-command, becomes involved, the dispute between Mildred and the local police grows more bitter.

Martin McDonagh wrote and directed the film, his third feature after In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths and before The Banshees of Inisherin and Wild Horse Nine. Frances McDormand plays Mildred, with Woody Harrelson as Willoughby, Sam Rockwell as Dixon, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges and Zeljko Ivanek among a credited cast of 31.

The crime drama runs 115 minutes and was made for about 15 million dollars, then took roughly 160 million worldwide, a strong return for its budget. On IMDb it holds 8.1 out of 10 from around 604,000 votes, and on TMDB 8.1 out of 10 from more than 11,000. A critics' rating of 8.4 out of 10 from 408 reviews puts professional assessments slightly above the audience scores.