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Movie Info

In 2010, David Crowley worked on a film about a future in which the government crushes civil liberties. When Crowley and his wife and child are found dead in 2014, conspiracy theorists speculate that they have been assassinated by the government.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Erik Nelson
Release Date (Theaters):

Nov 3, 2017 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 25, 2017
Runtime:

1h 33m

Cast & Crew

Danny August Mason

Mason Hendricks

Mitch Heil

Michael Boggio

Erik Nelson
Director

Werner Herzog
Executive Producer

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All Critics (18) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (18)

Unfolding like a more intricately plotted installment of "48 Hours," Erik Nelson's "A Gray State" is a genuinely unsettling examination of a 2015 murder case.

November 22, 2017 | Full Review…

Michael Rechtshaffen
Los Angeles Times
Even in its more meandering moments it is a gripping, almost unbearably dark watch.

November 8, 2017 | Full Review…

Emily Yoshida
New York Magazine/Vulture
This well-crafted doc makes for an absorbingly bizarre footnote. One suspects we are living in a historical epoch that is going to provide many such footnotes for some time to come.

November 4, 2017 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
Variety
A real-life tale that's as unsettling as it is precisely of-the-moment.

November 3, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Godfrey Cheshire
RogerEbert.com
Clear enough about what happened to be ambiguous about what it means, the film makes only one clean argument: Truth isn't always stranger than fiction, but it's often a hell of a lot sadder.

November 2, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review…

David Ehrlich
indieWire
Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.

November 2, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
A fascinating case of whodunnit and paranoia related to a mysterious filmmaker whose work raises questions. [Full review in Spanish].

February 18, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Federico Furzan
Cinelipsis
A disturbing, if somewhat superficial peek inside Conspiracyland's bubble, a "mysterious" death unraveled

December 27, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation
Nelson's film is a fairly straightforward police-file-and-talking-heads affair, energized by the use of Crowley's own storehouse of footage, and in essence positing him as a co-director.

December 13, 2017 | Full Review…

Michael Atkinson
In These Times
A Gray State is a multi-layered essay on how we tell stories, what we watch, and what we fail to see.

November 2, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
A story similar to "The Shining" but much scarier because it is true.

November 1, 2017 | Full Review…

Louis Proyect
Counterpunch.org
A tantalising and fascinating real-life story.

May 1, 2017 | Full Review…

Anthony Kaufman
Screen International