The Grey Zone
User Score
8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
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  1. MichaelF.
    Mar 24, 2003
    9
    Wow. This movie is amazing. There is only one minor flaw, some strange casting (David Arquette, Harvery Kietel). Arquette isn't that bad though, he is just over acted by everyone else in the movie. The direction is great and the writing is also great. The movie is ugly without being as in-your-face as Schindler's List. Totally rewarding.
  2. ChadS.
    Jun 5, 2003
    9
    What director Tim Blake Nelson shows us is so horrific, the casting of name actors becomes irrelevant. You can scrutinize all you want about Harvey Keitel's German accent as being unconvinving, but when Sport pulls out his gun, he'll seem pretty real to you then. You leave Nelson's Auschwitz with a dozen indelible images of unspeakable atrocities, not if David Arquette can act or not. In "The Pianist", two Nazis dump a wheelchair-bounded man over a second-story railing. "The Grey Zone" has many moments like that. It doesn't have the artistry of other Holocaust films, it has the nausea of the Holocaust. This movie deserves a better rep. … Collapse

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Metascore
58 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Extremely difficult but worthy film.
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  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    75
    Grimly claustrophobic movies can make viewers put up a shield, yet Tim Blake Nelson (who directed O) invests this unusual Holocaust drama with dramatic intensity that in no way cheapens its subject matter.
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  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    50
    The movie's storyline is not always perfectly clear, seemingly falling into the same murky “grey zone” as everything else.
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