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Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (2005) Movie Reviews

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Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)

Jones gives himself the plum role, not out of vanity but to do justice to Arriaga's story. ... The only actor capable of playing a man like Perkins is Tommy Lee Jones....read the complete Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (2005) review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)

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The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

In a film filled with plaintively expressive faces, characters say as much when they don't talk as when they speak Mr. Arriaga's dialogue, which sometimes sounds like hardscrabble poetry, sometimes sounds real as dirt and is, rather surprisingly, often...read the complete Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (2005) review at The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

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Cinepassion.org

Clint Eastwood gave it a grand Viking funeral in Unforgiven, but is the Western really dead? A History of Violence was Cronenberg's vision of a John Ford oater, I hear, yet Tommy Lee Jones feels no need to bury the genre under metaphorical trimmings....read the complete Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (2005) review at Cinepassion.org

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Boulder Weekly (Thomas Delapa)

A messy drama that digs up a made-to-order villain (the racist U.S. authorities) and a dead hero (an illegal Mexican immigrant) ... Jones doubles-back on the story repeatedly, running roughshod over his characters to shovel in his political points....read the complete Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The (2005) review at Boulder Weekly (Thomas Delapa)