When "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" was first shown at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, it created such a sensation that the picture and its director/star, Tommy Lee Jones, became early ...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a film about borders—not those drawn in the sand to form nations, but those drawn amongst people, those carved into societies as acceptable norms. The film ...

As always, the “O word” is on everybody’s lips at the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s still a bit early in the festival to start calling favorites, but as far as this critic is concerned, ...

This season’s other cowboy bonding pic, Tommy Lee Jones‘ spare, deeply warped theatrical directorial debut may not be as socially radical and ultimately important as “Brokeback Mountain.” But in all ...

At last year’s Cannes film festival, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada walked off with the prizes for best actor (Tommy Lee Jones) and best screenplay (Guillermo Arriaga). It’s often hard to ...

Did you know that Tommy Lee Jones can speak Spanish? If you've seen "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," you just may have picked up this factoid, along with a myriad of other important life ...

As spare and laconic as he is as an actor, Tommy Lee Jones is even more so as a director. But he proves in "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," his first outing behind the camera, that he's also ...

A contemporary western with political overtones and acerbic gallows humor, Tommy Lee Jones’s first theatrical feature as director (2005) is impressive. Inspired by the unpunished 1997 killing of ...

Tommy Lee Jones plays a modern-day cowboy with some old-fashion notions in his film ''The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.'' Living in a Texas border town, Jones' Pete is upset when his friend, a ...

Read up on the latest The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. The Oscar-winning actor impresses both in front of and behind the camera of this ...