Tommy Lee Jones,
Barry Pepper,
Julio Cedillo,
Dwight Yoakam,
January Jones
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Veteran screen star Tommy Lee Jones makes his directorial debut with the fractured tale of murder and injustice on the U.S.-Mexico border scripted by Amores Perros and 21 Grams screenwriter Guillermo ... read more
Directed by: Tommy Lee Jones
Release Date: February 3, 2006
DVD Release Date: June 6, 2006
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December 19, 2011Tommy 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 r... read more
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June 6, 2011This 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.
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March 23, 2011Exceptional screenplay plus a great directorial debut for Tommy Lee Jones.
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January 21, 2011A border patrolman shoots and kills the best friend of cowboy Tommy Lee Jones and when an indifferent police department refuses to get involved over the death of a "wetback", Jones decides to dole out some old fashioned frontier justice. TLJ's directorial debut is a modern day we... read more
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May 4, 2010In Tommy Lee Jones directorial debut, he manages to pull of what many directors take a lifetime to achieve. A clear, well thought out and executed film. Westerns are hard to pull off in my book, but Jones does it very well. This is a good watch and I'll be looking forward to wha... read more
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March 13, 2010Tommy Lee Jones gives a strong and demanding performance, he also directs a total triumph. Barry Pepper gives a terrific performance. A great piece of film making. A powerful, brooding and skillfully made to date western picture. Beautiful scenery and cinematography and engaging ... read more
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September 24, 2009Fantastic film, maybe the best film of 2006. One of the best films of the millennium so far even! A future classic that come highly recommended, a modern western, superior but similar to No country for old Men. Brilliant!
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July 26, 2009Unique, different, and interesting are thrre words that pretty much sum up this movie, especially in terms of how it relates to movies that are thematically similar, and movies from the same genre. It is a western, and it starts out as a revenge story, but it is a revisionist, mo... read more
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Critic Reviews
February 24, 2006
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
February 24, 2006
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
With all due respect to that important, quasi-controversial, most-honored film of last year, this is the best Western of 2005. Full Review
February 24, 2006
Tom Long, Detroit News
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 vi... Full Review
February 24, 2006
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
It boasts genuinely and uniformly fine performances -- a credit to Jones the director and the actor, as well as his costars -- some stunning cinematography by the great Chris Menges and a uncompromisi... Full Review
February 23, 2006
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tommy Lee Jones' big-screen directorial debut might not be the easiest film to watch, but its payoff makes it one of the better trips to the movies of the past year. Full Review
February 23, 2006
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Few films have ever captured the feel of the desert Southwest better than Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Full Review
February 9, 2006
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Without the wise and well-crafted words of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, it's just so much posturing. Full Review
February 9, 2006
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Wily, sad, funny, and full of life.
February 4, 2006
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Three Burials still reaches the kind of pungency it seems to be seeking, and it touches on issues of alienation and distance very relevant to the reality of countless migrants. Full Review
February 4, 2006
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
All this edginess, combined with the grandeur and sweep of a classic western, demonstrates that Jones clearly knows how to tell a story -- and how to confound us at the same time. Full Review
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