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The Grey

2011

Joe Carnahan

Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts ...

5.5

14,363

Adventure. Drama In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. A team working on an oil drilling station in the Arctic gets word that the company is flying them back to Anchorage for a break. Less than an hour into the flight, they fly into a blizzard and the plane goes down. The are only a handful of survivors, one of whom is Ottway ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A terrifically exciting, deeply unsettling survivalist epic (...) The Grey, full of beauty and terror and a healing sense of grace, brings us face to face with our own worst fears (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"It is, even as melodramatic and sometimes implausible entertainment, the best studio movie in a long time (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	John Anderson Variety	"Certainly an adventure film but one with a spiritual ingredient that is both surprising and fiercely resonant"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Prepare to be devastated"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"What starts as a tense and moody survival thriller fairly quickly becomes tedious (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Grey' advances with pitiless logic. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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