3 billboards

I thought that it fit the style of the film, although the fit of the film could be uneasy at times. Having just seen the movie, I consider it "pretty good/good." Here is my brief review:

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is more or less a black comedy, but its grandiose flourishes and over-the-top expressions of irony and humor mesh uneasily with its dark, tragic, morally ambiguous subject matter. Still, the film is effectively eerie and haunting, strange and surreal, and in its better passages it can be quite mesmerizing. Ultimately, the movie's message may be one of nihilism, and the film has something to say about redemption and vengeance—albeit in a twisted manner that may cloud the movie's moral urgency. Francis McDormond delivers a relentless powerhouse performance, and the locations do evoke rural Missouri, despite the actual shooting location of North Carolina. 

By the way, I would compare Three Billboards to two recent films. The first is last year's acclaimed Manchester by the Sea, which I deemed "good" after a first viewing and "good/very good" following a second screening. (Although I enjoyed the film and found it memorable, I did not consider it a magnificent masterwork—it is significantly flawed.) Like Three Billboards, Manchester by the Sea mixed comedy and tragedy while also featuring baroque stylization that sometimes proved excessive. With that film, the baroque elements actually were more aggrandized and distracting and created greater tonal inconsistency, but when Manchester successfully fused comedy and tragedy (as during, say, the first half of the film and again in the final few scenes), the results proved outstanding—greater than in Three Billboards. 

The other recent movie that I would somewhat analogize to Three Billboards is Suburbicon, which played in theaters about a month ago. I considered Suburbicon "good"—as an outright satire and a dark historical fantasy (set in the 1950s), Suburbicon is more consistent in vision and tone than Three Billboards. On the other hand, there is greater urgency, potency, and poignancy to Three Billboards, but the satirical elements mesh less smoothly. 

I will probably see Three Billboards one more time.