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Schindler's List (1993)

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Reviews Counted:58

Fresh:56

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... 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 profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labor to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But after witnessing the violent liquidation of the walled ghetto where the Krakow Jews have been forced to live, Schindler slowly begins to realize the immense evil of Nazism. When his employees are sent to a work camp, they come under the terrorizing reign of sadistic Nazi Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes). With the help of his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), Schindler creates a list of "essential" Jews. Bribing Goeth, Schindler manages to get 1,100 people released from the camp and brought to the safety of his munitions factory in Czechoslovakia. Spielberg's glorious film is wondrously evocative, visually stunning, and emotionally stirring. [More]

Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall

Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davidtz, Beatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Norbert Weisser, Elina Löwensohn

Director: Steven Spielberg

Director: Steven Spielberg
Composer: John Williams
Story: Thomas Keneally
Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian
Producer: Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg

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Spielberg is enough of a master showman to break up the horror with small rewards.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
03/12/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

It's a noble achievement, and essential viewing.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

[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.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

See website for more details.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
04/10/08
Rory L. Aronsky
Rory L. Aronsky
Screen It!

Spielberg marshals all his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Schindler's List is a true dramatic classic, capable of making anyone cry.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
James Brundage
James Brundage
Filmcritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
03/03/04
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

Explores the mystery of goodness in this astonishing drama of a scoundrel's amazing acts of bravery and selflessness.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
08/20/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

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

Full Review Source: AboutFilm.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Carlo Cavagna
Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm.com

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

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
03/09/04
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

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.

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
11/17/04
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama

Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
03/12/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

A classic that stays with the audience long after the closing credits conclude.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/05/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Schindler's List (1993) is Steven Spielberg's award-winning masterpiece - a profoundly shocking, unsparing, three-hour long epic of the Holocaust.

Full Review Source: Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films | comment Comment
01/01/00
Tim Dirks
Tim Dirks
Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films

What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Spielberg has painted his masterpiece with his own blood.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/18/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

In a severe, uncompromising manner that none of his previous films has approached, Spielberg has captured the terror of the Nazi reign as well as the determination and resourcefulness of those who resisted.

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John Hartl
John Hartl
Film.com
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The film is as historically important as it is dramatic, and every high school student should see it.

Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
04/09/04
Forrest Hartman
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal

There's no trust here from the director that the audience might be able to fathom the horrors of the Holocaust if the lines between good and bad aren't distinctly drawn.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment 43 Comments
05/27/04
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com
 
 
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