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Dominican Rep. The Grey Zone
4,398
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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"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)" | ||
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"Nelson (...) invests this unusual Holocaust drama with dramatic intensity that in no way cheapens its subject matter. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)" | ||
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"The movie's storyline is not always perfectly clear, seemingly falling into the same murky 'grey zone' as everything else" | ||
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"Extremely difficult but worthy film" | ||
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"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" | ||
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"Jagged, unrelenting, claustrophobically intimate." | ||
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"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." | ||
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"There are better holocaust dramas than 'Grey Zone' (...) But few will disturb you like 'The Grey Zone'" | ||
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"It's an intelligent, chilling movie, but one that can't quite shake those stage origins" | ||
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"Gives life and meaning to an event that is little more than a footnote in history books" | ||
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"No dramatic feature has ever come quite this close to the matter-of-fact ugliness of the Nazi crimes." |
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