The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones' film about a rancher (Jones) who keeps his promise to his friend and co-worker Melquiades Estrada who wanted to be buried in his homeland in Mexico. The film is slow at times, but gets it point across... Full review

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada(2005) ****Tommy Lee Jones steps up to the plate and takes a big first swing with 'Three Burials.' This is a movie that captures the old Peckinpah-esquire style of the rugged west and combines wonderfully... Full review

As if we were being thrown smack in the middle of a Cormac McCarthy novel, >>Three Burials<< powerfully serves up the borderlands milieu through its bipolar texture and tone: both graphic and dreamy, tragic and comical. That fusion is accented... Full review

This movie not only has some of the best acting I've seen in a while; but also it features a full cast of interesting characters - from the protagonists to random encounters, each one seems... to exist somewhere beyond the... Full review

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Directed by Tommy Lee Jones (2005)I have always liked Tommy Lee Jones as an actor. He has made some really great performances in the movies JFK, Heaven & Earth, and The Fugitive. And otherwise... Full review

"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" is a surprise. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones, marking his first time behind the camera, with a screen play by Guillermo Arriaga, this is a film that tells a story about an murder in... Full review

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is for me the film that saved 2005. Written by Guillermo Arriaga, also writer of "Amores Perros" and "21 grams" and the first movies of Tommy Lee Jones as a director (but also lead... Full review

Ay, carramba! A diablo of a marketing challenge: a bilingual movie, with an impossible-to-remember title, a story of white trash, Mexican wetbacks (that's the film's language), cruel Border Patrol "cowboys," and Tommy Lee Jones as the director and the uniquely... Full review

The "Three burials of Melquiades Estrada" is a multi-layered story of death, retribution, loneliness, and remembrance. Although it takes place in modern day Texas, its main character Pete Perkins, superbly played by Tommy Lee Jones, seems to be living resolutely... Full review

I just had the pleasure of seeing this wholly original modern-day American western. Just when you think you have this film's plot pigeon holed it takes you in a different direction. THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA is in part a... Full review

We have seen it at football grounds. The crowd heaves in a rise and fall, a giant moving undulation that someone, somewhere, for some reason, dubbed the Mexican wave. ... Full Article

A man (Melquiades) is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of a west Texas town. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. ... Full Article

Hands down, the best film I saw at last weekend's Longbaugh Festival was El Inmigrante , a grippingly told non-fiction account of tensions along the US-Mexico border. ... Full Article

In addition to directing, Jones plays Pete Perkins, a Texas rancher who, following the death of his jolly pal Melquiades Estrada ( Julio Cedillo ), is compelled to unearth the Mexican's corpse in order to honor Mel's request to be... ... Full Article

The final Oscar polls close today (Feb. 28) at 7 p.m.Texas time. That means if any upset is in the works to knock "Brokeback Mountain" off its lofty frontrunner perch, it will be a done deal as of this... ... Full Article