The Grey Zone

...more frightening than their deaths is the overwhelming notion that it's better to die now rather than later.

Tim Blake Nelson's film presents this story with straightforward realism. He constructed a nearly scale-model duplicate of Auschwitz in Poland and brings to the crematorium scenes a sense of the forges of hell.

Like so many of its fellow Holocaust dramas, The Grey Zone seeks not to comfort audiences, but to remind them.

Overall, “The Grey Zone,” which is claustrophobically effective, is one of the finest, most humane and important Holocaust movies ever made.

...an extremely difficult but worthy film, whose true horror lies in the certain knowledge that however brutal it may seem, the reality of Auschwitz was far worse.