The Grey Zone
4,391
Drama
The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together, the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place ... [+]
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United States | 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. (...) pitiless, bleak and despairing. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)" | POS |
United States | USA Today | "Nelson (...) invests this unusual Holocaust drama with dramatic intensity that in no way cheapens its subject matter. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)" | POS |
United States | Austin Chronicle | "The movie's storyline is not always perfectly clear, seemingly falling into the same murky 'grey zone' as everything else" | NEU |
United States | TV Guide | "Extremely difficult but worthy film" | POS |
United States | 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" | NEG |
United States | The Washington Post | "Jagged, unrelenting, claustrophobically intimate." | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "Relentlessly graphic. (...) These images are so strong that they defeat the film's moral complexity. The more realistic ''The Grey Zone'' pretends to be, the more its unrealistic elements stand out." | NEU |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "There are better holocaust dramas than 'Grey Zone' (...) But few will disturb you like 'The Grey Zone'" | POS |
United States | New York Daily News | "It's an intelligent, chilling movie, but one that can't quite shake those stage origins" | NEU |
United States | ReelViews | "Gives life and meaning to an event that is little more than a footnote in history books" | POS |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "No dramatic feature has ever come quite this close to the matter-of-fact ugliness of the Nazi crimes." | POS |
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