The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Veteran screen star Tommy Lee Jones makes his directorial debut with the fractured tale of murder and injustice on the U.S.-Mexico border scripted by Amores perros and 21 Grams screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) is a fresh-faced Border Patrol officer in Cibolo County, Texas ...more

For his debut feature, Tommy Lee Jones follows in the footsteps of other fine actors who paid attention when they were directed – Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Robert Duvall spring to mind. That is to say, he comes on the scene a confident, honed storyteller. This – with the assistance of scripter Guillermo Arriaga – enables a film like The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. In what could be the same border town John Sayles presents in Lone Star, Jones mines a subject that’s both timely ...more