8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.5
Overview
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Starring Cast
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Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Trans: Negative
Christianity: Negative
Overview
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
While the film's core conflict touches on left-leaning concerns like police incompetence and racism, its narrative champions individual, often morally ambiguous, action and explores the complex potential for redemption in deeply flawed characters, ultimately balancing competing viewpoints rather than promoting a specific political ideology.
The movie features some visible diversity within its supporting cast. More notably, its narrative directly engages with and critiques traditional identities, particularly through the explicit portrayal of a racist and violent white male police officer whose character arc is central to the film's exploration of justice and prejudice.
Secondary
The film includes a brief, derogatory comment from a character implying Officer Dixon's homosexuality. However, this aspect is not explored, nor does it significantly impact his character arc, which centers on his racism and redemption. The portrayal is incidental, neither affirming nor denigrating LGBTQ+ identity in a meaningful way.
The film features a transsexual character, Penelope, primarily through the transphobic slurs and violent actions of Officer Dixon. While Dixon's prejudice is depicted as negative, the narrative lacks a strong counterbalance or positive portrayal of Penelope's identity, making the overall depiction problematic due to the unmitigated presentation of transphobia.
The film portrays the Catholic Church, through Father Montgomery, as an institution complicit in covering up child abuse, highlighting hypocrisy and institutional failure. The narrative offers no significant counterbalancing positive portrayal of the religious institution or its leadership, instead focusing on its problematic aspects.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is an original screenplay. All characters were created specifically for this film, lacking any prior canonical or historical gender to be swapped from.
This film is an original screenplay with no prior source material, historical figures, or previous adaptations. All characters were created for this specific movie, meaning there is no established canonical or historical race to be altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.1
8.1
Critic Ratings
9.0
8.8
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