In the chaotic aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, four American soldiers played by George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze discover a map leading to a cache of Kuwaiti gold stolen by Saddam Hussein’s forces. With the fighting supposedly over, they set off across the Iraqi desert on what should be a simple, unauthorized heist.

Roger Ebert — Chicago Sun-Times, ★★★★
“Three Kings is 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.”

Kenneth Turan — Los Angeles Times
“Unexpected in its wicked humor, its empathy for the defeated and its political concerns, this is writer-director David O. Russell’s nervy attempt to reinvent the war movie.”