Three Kings Reviews

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Metascore ®: 78
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Critic Reviews

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

Some kind of weird masterpiece...one of the best movies of the year.

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100
Washington Post | Desson Thomson

Enormously entertaining.

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90
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.

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90
Boston Globe | Jay Carr

You walk out amazed and refreshed by the way it kicks the assumptions out from under the genre.

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88
USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

Visual pyrotechnics and dark humor aside, Three Kings rules because it dares to dig for such truths, whether banal or significant.

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75
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.

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75
Variety | Todd McCarthy

An impudently comic, stylistically aggressive and, finally, very thoughtful manner.

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70
The New York Times | Janet Maslin

It isn't nearly as successful a showcase for this filmmaker's extraordinary talents.

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40

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