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Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut is both a potent western and a powerful morality tale.
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As an actor Tommy Lee Jones rarely makes a false move. A master of understatement, he conveys a sense of enormous power held in check. The same could be said of his first feature as a director, Three Burials. Nov 1, 2007 | Full Review…
As an actor Tommy Lee Jones rarely makes a false move. A master of understatement, he conveys a sense of enormous power held in check. The same could be said of his first feature as a director, Three Burials.
David Ansen
This gripping film about real people is well-worth excavating. Mar 21, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This gripping film about real people is well-worth excavating.
Nev Pierce
This isn't a film that demands to be enjoyed in order to be remembered -- one way or the other, it will stick with you. Feb 24, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This isn't a film that demands to be enjoyed in order to be remembered -- one way or the other, it will stick with you.
Rick Groen
With all due respect to that important, quasi-controversial, most-honored film of last year, this is the best Western of 2005. Feb 24, 2006 | Rating: 5/5
With all due respect to that important, quasi-controversial, most-honored film of last year, this is the best Western of 2005.
Roger Moore
[A] long, kooky, immensely absorbing picture, which forges the elegiac cruelty of a Cormac McCarthy novel with the two-fisted machismo of a Sam Peckinpah movie, and comes up with an altogether new brand of Western mythology. Feb 24, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
[A] long, kooky, immensely absorbing picture, which forges the elegiac cruelty of a Cormac McCarthy novel with the two-fisted machismo of a Sam Peckinpah movie, and comes up with an altogether new brand of Western mythology.
Rene Rodriguez
Funny, tough, filled with cut-to-the-bone moments and bleached in the heat of the Texas sun, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a movie that sears itself into the viewer with uncompromising vision and stark approach. Feb 24, 2006 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Funny, tough, filled with cut-to-the-bone moments and bleached in the heat of the Texas sun, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a movie that sears itself into the viewer with uncompromising vision and stark approach.
Tom Long
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has the grandeur of a morality drama enriched with the impassioned bewilderment of true tragedy. Oct 6, 2018 | Full Review…
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has the grandeur of a morality drama enriched with the impassioned bewilderment of true tragedy.
Nigel Andrews
Despite the occasional gruesomely gleeful tone of this film, (you may find yourself laughing in inappropriate places) it has an odd dignity, most of which comes from Tommy Lee Jones. Aug 23, 2017 | Full Review…
Despite the occasional gruesomely gleeful tone of this film, (you may find yourself laughing in inappropriate places) it has an odd dignity, most of which comes from Tommy Lee Jones.
Dorothy Woodend
In The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, there is heartbreak, loss, and adultery, all of it general and all of it far more affecting than any self-righteous ethics or anachronistic western codes. Mar 5, 2014 | Full Review…
In The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, there is heartbreak, loss, and adultery, all of it general and all of it far more affecting than any self-righteous ethics or anachronistic western codes.
Nathan Kosub
An offbeat, tonal take on the Western, Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is best described as soulful and creative, if scattered and overambitious. Jun 14, 2010 | Rating: 67/100 | Full Review…
An offbeat, tonal take on the Western, Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is best described as soulful and creative, if scattered and overambitious.
Gabe Leibowitz
Exerts considerable, groggy power Aug 30, 2009 | Full Review…
Exerts considerable, groggy power
Fernando F. Croce
Tommy Lee himself must be mentioned, as he pulls a nuanced role with a craggy, sunburnt face that's impressive to behold. He's at the top of his game in this flick, all the more remarkable as he's literally wearing many hats on the production. Jun 21, 2007 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Tommy Lee himself must be mentioned, as he pulls a nuanced role with a craggy, sunburnt face that's impressive to behold. He's at the top of his game in this flick, all the more remarkable as he's literally wearing many hats on the production.
Jason Gorber
Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut fits right into his oeuvre, sometimes even feels like the brother of one of his masterpieces, "No country for old men". It tells the story of a ranger trying to solve the murder of his illegal Mexican worker, who was on the verge of becoming a real friend, and a special journey he's taking with the perpetrator. That's beautifully filmed, but very slowly told. The fact that the vigilante and the killer hardly ever speak, and probably realistically so, makes the final act a little less believable but still a pretty decent ending. Worth seeing and a brave attempt, but certainly not an easy film to consume.
Super Reviewer
This is one of Tommy Lee Jones best films. About a Mexican hand he hires who is murdered and what he goes through to prove his killer and to gets revenge. A very long movie one reason it didn't get much airplay. a 5 star independent film.
Thought this was a western not sure what you class it as, quite an odd film.
Exceptional screenplay plus a great directorial debut for Tommy Lee Jones.
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