They are dark, thoroughly uncompromising works of a filmmaker completely fearless to take an audience into dank recesses of the human condition.

If stars could be awarded on the basis of good intentions, The Grey Zone should be king of the galaxy. Unfortunately, it lands on earth with something of a thud.

Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity.

Less about heroism than desperation, moral negotiation, and remaining human in an inhuman existence, The Grey Zone argues that survival and sacrifice is also a matter of why and seeks to find that meaning in an ordeal that is... unfathomable.