
Sometimes it's best just to keep your mouth shut. Especially since the brightness is never quite elevated to the point where the brightest parts of the picture start to look bleached or hyper-real. The film’s exteriors enjoy a much higher base brightness level than they do on the HD Blu-ray, for instance, making them look more engaging and life-like. Three Billboards justifies its 4K Blu-ray release much more emphatically through the enhancements provided by its use of wide color gamut and high dynamic range (HDR) technologies.
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This only shows up occasionally but, for instance, you can certainly sometimes see some fizzing over skin tones, as well as in the mist hanging around the billboards during the film’s opening shots. The improvement in perceived detail does sometimes come at the expense of slightly elevated noise, though. The trees and glass around the three billboards that give the film its name are also notably more defined than they are on the HD Blu-ray. There’s clearly a more ‘lived in’ look to all the character’s faces and clothing during the film’s many close-ups than you get on the HD Blu-ray, as well as a more defined sense of space to the film’s locations (both interior and exterior). That’s not to say, though, that it’s actually a bad upscaling effort. This is pretty apparent from the 4K BD’s pictures, which lack that breath-taking detail and sharpness ‘snap’ you tend to get with more ‘native’ 4K concoctions. Photo: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Fox Searchlight Mildred and her police-prodding advertising boards.
