While British writer-director Martin McDonagh, a seasoned and well-known theater director, showed incredible promise with “In Bruges” and especially 2012’s underseen “Seven Psychopaths,” it’s safe to say that his Oscar-nominated 2017 film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” catapulted him to a mainstream he was not overly familiar with — nor, I bet, that he really wanted to get cozy with.
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Of course, we all know the rule: take these reactions with a grain of salt rather than treating them as gospel. Still, I will say that the film tested like gangbusters earlier this year, and Lionsgate clearly has confidence.