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90
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
It's a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Sit through the entire credits. There's one more shot still to come. Not that you wouldn't be content without it.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A terrifically exciting, deeply unsettling survivalist epic.
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75
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
The setting and fatalistic musings of The Grey invite comparison to Sean Penn's stirring 2007 adventure "Into the Wild"; in its more metaphysical moments, told in impressionistic flashbacks, it recalls last year's "The Tree of Life."
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70
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Wall Street Journal John Anderson
Mr. Carnahan has till now been pigeonholed, and rightly, by comedy shoot-'em-ups like "Smokin' Aces" and "The A-Team." But here he is with The Grey - certainly an adventure film but one with a spiritual ingredient that is both surprising and fiercely resonant.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The Grey, whose clipped title, grim swagger, and lost-in-the-outback themes conjure up visions of that Alec Baldwin/Anthony Hopkins classic, "The Edge," devolves into a predictable man-against-nature, and man-against-fellow man, affair.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
You see the pattern here? Winter-release slot + travel budget + Liam Neeson = slightly preposterous, routinely violent, apparently lucrative action movie in which the Irish-born star signals inner emotional conflict with his handsomely mashed boxer's face while settling outer physical conflict with his boxer's fists.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
The computer-generated wolves have more personality than any of the dull characters in The Grey.
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50
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's cheap the way The Grey wants to be both a Liam Neeson "Quit Taking My Stuff'' movie and an existential thriller about survival.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
A handsome but gabby take on the standard survivalist thriller that's more concerned with lofty metaphysics than which poor blockhead is about to bite it next.
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