One can't deny its seriousness and quality.
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10/24/02
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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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10/24/02
From both a great and a terrible story, Mr. Nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience.
10/23/02
Top CriticThis 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.
10/23/02
A bleak, difficult and stunning film.
10/21/02
Top CriticThough there’s a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film’s direction, the drama feels rigged and sluggish.
10/21/02
Images resonate long after seeing this movie.
10/20/02
This is a subject that must never be forgotten or glossed over. A film such as The Grey Zone serves both art and history in helping to ensure that will never happen.
10/19/02
Nelson ... invests this unusual Holocaust drama with dramatic intensity that in no way cheapens its subject matter.
10/18/02
Top CriticAn undeniably moving film to experience, and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation.
10/18/02
The film's clumsiness detracts from the solemnity of the story and makes even decent actors such as Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi look bad.
10/18/02
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10/18/02
Nelson's brutally unsentimental approach ... sucks the humanity from the film, leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle.
10/18/02
Holocaust films are problematic, period. The Grey Zone is, sadly, more evidence of the qualities of silence.
10/17/02
Top CriticThis 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
An extremely difficult but worthy film, whose true horror lies in the certain knowledge that however brutal it may seem, the reality of Auschwitz was worse.
10/17/02
The more realistic The Grey Zone pretends to be, the more its unrealistic elements stand out.
10/17/02
Top CriticPainful, horrifying and oppressively tragic, this film should not be missed.
10/17/02
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
This is a powerful film that packs a punch to the stomach.
10/17/02
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