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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Reviews

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• 100

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas

  Incisive yet supple, wrenching yet deeply pleasurable, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada easily ranks among the year's best pictures.

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• 100

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  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.

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• 90

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Outstandingly realized on all levels.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla 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 darkly funny.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  Jones displays a firm hand at the helm -- you sense that he is well within his comfort zone in this environment -- and performances including his own are lively and convincing.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  I admired the leisure and intensity of this morality tale.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  An unabashed descendant of "Bring Me the Head." This time, though, it's an entire corpse that gets hauled through the desert, and that's not all that's being toted. So is a hefty parcel of racial correctness.

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