McDonagh is really only interested in Mildred, Willoughby, and Dixon. Which is fine. It's just frustrating that, as a result, every other character is only used as scaffolding to get from plot point A to plot point B.

The stylized dialogue and tonal shifts (the ex's girlfriend does *not* exist in the same universe as anyone else in the movie) are a matter of taste, but I'm really struggling to understand how folks are swallowing the rickety construction underlying this film. It unavoidably comes off as Coen Brothers fan fiction.