The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.
"...lassoed along the unwilling Mike Norton (Pepper), a recently-relocated-from-Cincinnati border patrolman, who accidentally shoots and kills Melquiades (and hastily..."
Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten