The documentary style allows Spielberg to deliver his message without preaching. The clever use of light and shade also makes it visually stunning.
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04/17/01
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 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 CriticThis is a beautifully crafted, hopeful movie.
02/19/08
Top CriticNo review available.
09/27/03
It's a noble achievement, and essential viewing.
02/09/06
Top CriticWhat 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 made the picture with sufficient professional gravitas to signal that he understood the line he was walking. But it is ultimately just a movie, and we all know that in a black-and-white film, chocolate syrup can be read as blood.
09/09/07
Spielberg marshals all his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama.
01/01/00
Schindler's List, because it is so finely crafted and authentic, truly allows one to experience the devastating, calculated breakdown of a Polish Jew in 1939 through the end of the war.
12/02/09
No review available.
02/28/03
Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread.
03/12/04
Spielberg does an uncommonly good job both of holding our interest over 185 minutes and of showing more of the nuts and bolts of the Holocaust than we usually get from fiction films.
02/05/07
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
Top CriticDirigido com uma discrição pouco comum em Spielberg, o filme emociona por sua crueldade e conquista graças à complexidade do caráter de Schindler.
06/04/04
Spielberg is enough of a master showman to break up the horror with small rewards.
03/12/04
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
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10/29/08
The result is unquestionably his most important work, his most fully realized work, his most rewarding work.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
11/20/03
Spielberg has painted his masterpiece with his own blood.
08/18/07
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