"Expected man-versus-wild, man-versus-absent-God themes ring more true than usual here....Plenty of chase scenes and gory encounters keep tension high."
Hollywood Reporter "[T]he film takes some time to let its characters ruminate, by way of dialogue, on their circumstances, which gives THE GREY a distinctly late 20th century feel....Neeson holds it together from first to last."
Los Angeles Times "What is surprising is how poetic the movie is, partly thanks to its high-lonesome sound design and the desolate beauty of its visuals, but mostly because of its star, Liam Neeson."
Movieline "There are some crackling action sequences and gory highlights, and the cast is uniformly good in surprisingly fleshed-out roles."
Film Comment 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]hat drives the film is a titanic performance from Neeson....It's up there with his most commanding work."
Total Film "Here, Neeson is all the more intense for being allowed to use his natural accent....THE GREY has a real sense of physical peril..."
Sight and Sound "Liam Neeson anchors the film solidly as a oil-rigger who leads a group of plane-crash survivors through the wolf-filled Alaskan wilderness"
A.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's time for some conversation among the men, and this film, directed by Joe Carnahan and written by him and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, treats them as individuals..."
Chicago Sun-Times
