The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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- Synopsis
- In ÂThe Three Burials of Melquiades EstradaÂ, Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones)is a local ranch foreman in a small West Texas desert town. When Melquiades Estrada, a ranch hand Perkins has befriended, is accidentally shot by a callous border ......
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- Starring
- Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones
- Director(s)
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 121 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
In an era when hundreds of lives are casually destroyed in action movies, here is an entire film in which one life is honored, and one death is avenged.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites
Incisive yet supple, wrenching yet deeply pleasurable, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada easily ranks among the year's best pictures.Read the full review
Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites
Outstandingly realized on all levels.Read the full review