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starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Diana Abu-Jaber - Portland Oregonian
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal

Some kind of weird masterpiece, a screw-loose war picture that sends action and humor crashing head-on into each other and spinning off into political anger

- Roger Ebert

Doesn’t quite succeed in its attempt to marry biting, surreal satire with a paean to true-blue heroism

-Mark Burger

Three Kings

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Four Gulf War soldiers find a map showing where Saddam Hussein may have hidden millions of dollars in gold bullion stolen from Kuwait, and off they go on a treasure hunt. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Cliff Curtis, Said Taghmaoui. Director: David O. Russell (1999, R)

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