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Mildred, the movie’s sole flashback implies, was not always that nice to her daughter when she was alive, and her idea of how to lift her grieving son’s spirits is to flick a spoonful of soggy cereal at his head and then mock his annoyance. But it’s Frances McDormand’s complete commitment to her often unlikable and sometimes unhinged character that lifts Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri to a higher moral plane. Though the cast is brilliant all around, the versatile Sam Rockwell still manages to stand out, even if Dixon’s hasty redemption arc feels unearned. She even scoffs at the repeated pleas of her surviving child, high school–aged Robbie ( Manchester by the Sea’s Lucas Hedges, who also turns in a quiet but remarkable performance in this month’s Lady Bird), to take it down a notch and quit rubbing the horrible details of Angela’s murder into the face of everyone she meets. She has no patience for the soothing pleasantries of the local priest, who drops by her house for a cup of tea and is served a profane rant about pedophilia in the Catholic clergy. Fixated on finding the perpetrator, Mildred cruises the streets in her old wood-paneled station wagon, dressed in a union work suit she seems never to take off, gaze fixed stonily ahead. Understandably so, since it’s only been seven months since her teenage daughter, Angela, was found raped and murdered near their house in the small town of the title.
Mildred Hayes, the divorced single mother played with searing ferocity by Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is a hard person to be around.
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