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The Grey Zone In The Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis wrote a review on the film The Grey Zone in the Los Angeles Times. She is one of the chief film critics for The New York Times and formerly a film writer at The Village Voice, the film critic for the Los Angeles Times, and the editor of the film section at LA Weekly. She has written for a variety of publications, including Film Comment and Sight and Sound. In her review, Manohla compares The Grey Zone to Schindler’s List saying: “Steven Spielberg's decision to show water rather than Zyklon B flowing from shower heads in "Schindler's List" may have been misguided, but you can understand why he opted not to re-create the agonies of the gas chambers: It would have been unbearable” (Manohla Dargis). She is quite concerned about how

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