Three Kings

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Critics' Reviews

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Some kind of weird masterpiece...one of the best movies of the year.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Enormously entertaining.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Off-and-on cynical and sentimental, Russell's darkly comic tale shows how much can be done with familiar material when you're burning to do things differently and have the gifts to pull that off.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
When it comes to rousing action, whip-smart laughs and moral uplift that doesn't pump sunshine up your ass, Three Kings rules.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Blackly funny, unafraid to shift emotional gears from farce to horror, peppered with spectacular action.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
A brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
One of the most exciting Hollywood action films in years, and the best Vietnam movie since "Apocalypse Now."Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
You walk out amazed and refreshed by the way it kicks the assumptions out from under the genre.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Exhilarating, alternately funny and horrific film.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
So overstuffed with random fireworks that despite its politics, it's easy to imagine the film getting a four-star rave from Bush or Saddam.Read Full Review »
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