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20 Favorite Movies From 2017 (20 movies items)" Mildred Hayes: This didn't put an end to shit, you fucking retard; this is just the fucking start. Why don't you put that on your Good Morning Missouri fucking wake up broadcast, bitch?"
Film Journal 2018 (179 movies items)"There is some deal to enjoy in Three Billboards, but whenever you find yourself enjoying it, it's almost bound to shoot itself in the foot afterwards. It's a film equally bullheaded as it is lax. Hard as it is soft. It's a centrist view of the world in a world that currently really, really doesn't appreciate the stance. I don't know if I appreciate the stance either, really. But there is value within it. Three Billboards often feels less like a movie than a catalyst for it's audience to showcase"
Watched in 2018
The Cinephile's Film Journal: 2018 (47 movies items)"Watched on 3.28.18 1st Viewing Xbox On Demand -Solo"
Watched in 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
“Treating prickly subject matter with a carelessness and shock-and-awe grandstanding does not a great film make. No, no amount of verbal pyrotechnics about topics like racism, sexism, and culpability can mask the fact that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is flippant about things like character development or narrative coherency. It speaks in broad strokes, more like a caps lock, but it doesn’t engage in any of its idea in any meaningful way. Even worse is how Three Billboards treats epithets like they’re the Molotov cocktails that Mildred hurls at the police station – moments of rage thrown out to whip a reaction out of you with no follow-through or repercussions. From accusing a pirest of “altar-boy fucking” to hurling out loaded racial language to engender a guffa” read more
