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02/09/06
Schindler's List (1993)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:55
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Schindler's List blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's signature tender humanism to create the director's dramatic masterpiece.
Runtime: 3 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their savior. Unrepentant womanizer and war... [More]
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Steven Spielberg
Reviews for Schindler's List
Top CriticThis is a beautifully crafted, hopeful movie.
02/19/08
Top CriticThe documentary style allows Spielberg to deliver his message without preaching. The clever use of light and shade also makes it visually stunning.
04/17/01
Top CriticA heart-rending and redemptive Holocaust story, this Oscar-grabbing epic added to Spielberg's directorial credibility, showing he could handle controversial, sophisticated stories with real sensitivity.
02/19/08
Top CriticNo review available.
09/27/03
Spielberg is enough of a master showman to break up the horror with small rewards.
03/12/04
[Schindler's List] is a very good piece of cinema and those who are ready to spend three hours in front of the screen would be rewarded with a powerful, thought-provoking piece of seventh art.
01/01/00
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04/10/08
Spielberg marshals all his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama.
01/01/00
Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match.
01/01/00
Schindler's List is a true dramatic classic, capable of making anyone cry.
01/01/00
Many might argue that, for all its excellence, this isn't Spielberg's best movie, but it's impossible to deny its standing as his most important.
03/03/04
Explores the mystery of goodness in this astonishing drama of a scoundrel's amazing acts of bravery and selflessness.
08/20/02
What is most memorable is not the tragedy of the lives lost or even the number of people Schindler saved, but how such an imperfect man could have done something so perfect
01/01/00
Spielberg is such a filmmaking savant that it's hard to tell where the cinema ends and the protection of his sanity begins in Schindler's List
03/09/04
Schindler's List s’inscrit parmis les meilleurs films de Steven Spielberg et se veut un portrait très réussi de l’holocauste et de l’horreur qui en découle.
11/17/04
Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread.
03/12/04
A classic that stays with the audience long after the closing credits conclude.
01/05/04
Schindler's List (1993) is Steven Spielberg's award-winning masterpiece - a profoundly shocking, unsparing, three-hour long epic of the Holocaust.
01/01/00
What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen.
01/01/00
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