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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Ranch hand Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
4 September 1983, Austin, Texas, USA
22 November 1971, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
9 November 1946, San Antonio, Texas, USA
4 April 1970, Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
14 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
13 March 1960, Naco, Sonora, Mexico
31 July 1970, Victoria, Texas, USA
26 May 1940, Elaine, Arkansas, USA
3 September 1991, San Antonio, Texas, USA
13 February 1963, Snyder, Texas, USA
August 30, 2009
Exerts considerable, groggy powerFebruary 24, 2006
With all due respect to that important, quasi-controversial, most-honored film of last year, this is the best Western of 2005.February 23, 2006
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.June 21, 2007
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.March 05, 2014
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.February 24, 2006
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.February 24, 2006
[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.June 14, 2010
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.May 31, 2007
Breathtaking tableaus, colorful characters, and a moving message about redemption end up overshadowed by wanton insanity one might normally associate with a sadistic snuff film.February 24, 2006
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 uncompromising script by [Guillermo] Arriaga.June 15, 2007
Part character study, part Peckinpah-esque border Western, part mystic epic, Three Burials traverses its uncharted territories with a humour and humanity that lighten the burden of its sadness.February 24, 2006
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.