The grey

• While the world of filmdom trains its sights on the Sundance Film Festival this week, there are plenty of diversions in multiplexes for those of us who couldn't make the trek to Park City.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Many had expected Katherine Heigls One for the Money to underperform; Summits action-thriller Man on a Ledge no match for fellow action-thriller The Grey.
(Hollywood Reporter)
• Surviving a plane crash is no easy feat. Outrunning mythical wolves can prove even trickier, and not everyone can do it with as much ease as Liam Neeson in The Grey.
(MTV.com (blog))
• Its a cramped, ugly, bare-bones flight, packed full of oil-rig workers. Then it hits a blizzard. Then it crashes in the middle of an Alaskan wasteland even Todd Palin would steer clear of.
(nola.com)
• The Grey strives to be something different, turning what could have been a piece of mid-January claptrap into a far more satisfying experience. There is no yarn older than that of man vs. nature. It's part of our ancestral make-up and homo sapien heritage.
(Popmatters.com)
• In a two-week span, two movies about Alaska will make their big-screen, big-budget debuts. The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, comes out nationwide Friday and tells the story of oil workers who become stranded when their plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness.
(Alaska Dispatch)
• R for violence/disturbing content including bloody images, and for pervasive language. Open Road. 117 min. Fayette Mall, Frankfort, Georgetown, Hamburg, Movie Tavern, Nicholasville, Richmond, Winchester, Woodhill.
(Lexington Herald-Leader)
• The box office suddenly went form having just one thriller, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, to being filled with them in just a few weeks. Contraband was joined by Underworld: Awakening and Red Tails last weekend.
(The Celebrity Cafe.com)
• The Grey is a meat-and-potatoes movie about manly survival -- red meat and whatever kind of potatoes imply macho. The Grey Director:Joe Carnahan. Cast:Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo.
(USA Today)