
His third feature, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” has similar dark-comic underpinnings, but it tones down the laughs and expands the moments of quiet pathos.

When the playwright Martin McDonagh began writing and directing movies, his first two features, “In Bruges” and “Seven Psychopaths,” were brutal but hilarious stories about hard-up criminals and lovable losers. Sign up for our thrice-weekly newsletter here. Watching is The New York Times’s TV and film recommendation website.
