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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The Grey Zone should be seen: It's a worthy ordeal, with flaws that, ironically, make grist for later arguments. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A bleak, difficult and stunning film. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: One can't deny its seriousness and quality. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: The more realistic The Grey Zone pretends to be, the more its unrealistic elements stand out. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Easier to respect than to love. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: It isn't just that there's something unsettling about a film that aestheticizes a crematorium; it's that there's something trivializing about the very effort. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: No dramatic feature has ever come quite this close to the matter-of-fact ugliness of the Nazi crimes. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: The film's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength, but it's propelled by the acting. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Holocaust films are problematic, period. The Grey Zone is, sadly, more evidence of the qualities of silence. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: From both a great and a terrible story, Mr. Nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Grey Zone gives life and meaning to an event that is little more than a footnote in history books. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I have seen a lot of films about the Holocaust, but I have never seen one so immediate, unblinking and painful in its materials. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Nelson's work is relentless, grueling and courageous. Read more
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Nelson ... invests this unusual Holocaust drama with dramatic intensity that in no way cheapens its subject matter. Read more
Leslie Camhi, Village Voice: Re-creating Auschwitz somehow domesticates it; the smokestacks look like pieces from an infernal Monopoly board, while the extras appear suspiciously well-fed. Read more