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NUMBERS
Box Office: $186,080
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CONSENSUS
A grim and devastating tale of the Holocaust.
CAST & CREW
David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
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SYNOPSIS
Writer-director-actor Tim Blake Nelson presents THE GREY ZONE, a relentlessly bleak drama that uses one of history’s most incomprehensible calamities to address the ultimate question of human survival. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong holocaust violence, nudity, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 48 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 18, 2002
Video: Mar 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Lions Gate Films
GENRE
Dramas, World War II, Historical, Holocaust, Historic Events, Jewish, Nazi Germany
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Grey Zone Site
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 "An undeniably moving film to experience, and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
 "The lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced...It's a pity that [Nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Though there’s a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film’s direction, the drama feels rigged and sluggish."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"The Grey Zone is powerful, mesmerizing and disturbing."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"The effort is sincere and the results are honest, but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Nelson's intentions are good, but the end result does no justice to the story itself. It's horribly depressing and not very well done."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
"True tale of courage -- and complicity -- at Auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"Painful, horrifying and oppressively tragic, this film should not be missed."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"If this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then The Grey Zone is to be lauded for finding a new and ingenious angle."
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
"An uncomfortable movie, suffocating and sometimes almost senseless, The Grey Zone does have a center, though a morbid one."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
"An intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible, irrevocable choices and the price of making them."
-- Margaret A. McGurk, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
"Easier to respect than to love."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Brings light to a little-known facet of the Holocaust in a way that does justice to its moral ambiguities."
-- Kim Linekin, EYE WEEKLY
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"One of the finest, most humane and important Holocaust movies ever made."
-- Shlomo Schwartzberg, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The Grey Zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of Holocaust movies...but the film suffers from its own difficulties."
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
"The cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"Its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation, which is way too stagy."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'Have-yourself-a-happy-little-Holocaust' movies as Life Is Beautiful and Jakob the Liar, The Grey Zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in Auschwitz."
-- John Patterson, L.A. WEEKLY
"his [Nelson's] screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma, rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it."
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
"Like Schindler's List, The Grey Zone attempts to be grandiloquent, but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way."
-- Eric Monder, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"It's hard to imagine anybody ever being "in the mood" to view a movie as harrowing and painful as The Grey Zone, but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started."
-- Paul Matwychuk, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"This film is difficult to watch for the inhumanity it depicts, but important to see for its factual elements and the reminder of both the difficulty and importance of maintaining one's humanity."
-- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN
"[A] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid Holocaust drama."
-- Joe Leydon, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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FRESH 64%
Avg. Rating: 7/10 |
"One can't deny its seriousness and quality."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"The film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength, but it's propelled by the acting."
-- Matt Weitz, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Nelson's brutally unsentimental approach ... sucks the humanity from the film, leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"American and European cinema has amassed a vast Holocaust literature, but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than The Grey Zone."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"A bleak, difficult and stunning film."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"[Nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised, unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"From both a great and a terrible story, Mr. Nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Although the movie takes us further into the actual process of industrial death at Auschwitz than any American movie has yet dared, The Grey Zone never stoops to sensation or melodrama."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"The film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama: What would you have done to survive? The problem with the film is whether these ambitions, laudable in themselves, justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of Auschwitz II-Birkenau."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
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"Effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience."
-- David Levine, FILMCRITIC.COM
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