A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.... (Full plot summary below)
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A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
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| PremierePeter DebrugeThree Burials is beautiful, authentic and brutally observant of human nature. With real Tex-Mex backdrops instead of the usual Monument Valley vistas and characters too complex to withstand simple white-hat/black-hat reductionism, Three Burials is a visionary portrait of the New West. This is the terrain of Eastwood and Peckinpah, saddled with the concerns of 21st-century life. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasMaking an altogether impressive big-screen directing debut, Jones exudes quiet control over this full-bodied Western, taking pleasure in his measured pacing, mixing somber authority with flashes of surrealist wit and luxuriating in the magnificent, vanishing vistas of his home state. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn 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. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerTommy Lee Jones steps behind the camera to direct himself in the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumAll 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. |
| New York ObserverAndrew SarrisA literally slow-moving western that plays out as laboriously as its title. |
| Denton Record-ChronicleBoo AllenPart Homer, part Dante, set on the Texas/Mexican border. |
| Film Journal InternationalLewis BealeA stunningly offbeat and finely controlled directorial debut. |
| EmpireRob FrazerGrizzled Texan Tommy Lee Jones has made an exceptionally moving, surprisingly funny, often beautiful film, packed with unforgettable moments and note-perfect performances. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIncisive yet supple, wrenching yet deeply pleasurable, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada easily ranks among the year's best pictures. |
