Holocaust films are problematic, period. The Grey Zone is, sadly, more evidence of the qualities of silence.
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10/17/02
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The Grey Zone (2002)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:55
Rotten:25
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A grim and devastating tale of the Holocaust.
Theatrical Release:Oct 18, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $186,080
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... [More]
Starring: David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Allan Corduner
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
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Reviews for The Grey Zone
Top CriticThe gray could have sucked the life out of the film, but Nelson drives the story as if racing toward a deadline.
10/24/02
[Blake] creates moments ... that are impossible to forget.
11/08/02
If stars could be awarded on the basis of good intentions, The Grey Zone should be king of the galaxy. Unfortunately, it lands on earth with something of a thud.
11/18/02
The Grey Zone gives life and meaning to an event that is little more than a footnote in history books.
10/25/02
Top CriticWriter-director Tim Blake Nelson...makes the film compelling by designing it not to horrify, but to testify.
10/31/02
This one is terrible to watch, but crucial to see.
10/25/02
Roman Polanski's The Pianist may have been showered with Oscar glory ... but the best Holocaust film of 2002 was actually The Grey Zone.
05/13/03
The Grey Zone should be seen: It's a worthy ordeal, with flaws that, ironically, make grist for later arguments.
10/25/02
Top CriticRe-creating Auschwitz somehow domesticates it; the smokestacks look like pieces from an infernal Monopoly board, while the extras appear suspiciously well-fed.
10/15/02
Top CriticUnlike other Holocaust films, in which good and evil are always clearly delineated, Nelson has found a grey zone of ambiguous morality.
10/11/02
I admired the film enough to someday soon give it a second chance...
09/11/01
This is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking that managed to push the tale of the Holocaust into new realms of abhorrence I didn’t think were possible after the masterpiece of Schindler’s List.
10/17/02
Nelson ... invests this unusual Holocaust drama with dramatic intensity that in no way cheapens its subject matter.
10/18/02
Top CriticTim Blake Nelson takes a charged, unimaginable situation and stylistically flattens it
10/26/02
Tim Blake Nelson, credited as producer / screenwriter / play author / editor / director for “The Grey Zone” has taken a huge bite of a grim story of insurrection and destruction, leavened with spiritual salvation, and makes it, overall, boring and tedious
10/31/02
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.
10/17/02
Top CriticThis is a devastating movie to watch and impossible to forget.
10/25/02
The Grey Zone isn't for everyone, but its riveting power constitutes a stunning (as in it leaves you shattered and shaken) achievement.
11/08/02
Top CriticSo many incredibly raw, wrenching--and, crucially, unsparingly unsentimental--scenes and moments that it's impossible to not be haunted by the film.
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