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Schindler's List

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Schindler's List (1993)

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Reviews Counted: 56

Fresh: 54

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 profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as... 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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Dec 30, 2008

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English, French, Spanish
  • DTS 5.1 Surround Sound - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurette - 1. VOICES FROM THE LIST
  • 2. The Shoah Foundation Story with Steven Spielberg
  • 3. ABOUT OSKAR SCHINDLER
  • 4. Cast & Filmmakers

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  • Movie Cash Offer for MILK OR FROST/NIXON

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10/29/08
Steven D. Greydanus
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a beautiful masterpiece... even though it's the hardest movie ever to watch

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07/05/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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See website for more details.

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04/10/08
Rory L. Aronsky
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04/07/08
David Ansen
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Accessible ... .

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03/18/08
Dennis Schwartz
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This is the film to win over Spielberg skeptics.

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02/19/08
Todd McCarthy
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This is a beautifully crafted, hopeful movie.

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02/19/08
Colin Kennedy
Empire Magazine
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A 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.

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02/19/08
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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.

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09/09/07
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Spielberg has painted his masterpiece with his own blood.

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08/18/07
Rob Gonsalves
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02/10/07
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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.

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02/05/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Spielberg's tribute to the Holocaust reps Hollywood cinema at its best. Though looking at the phenom from Schindler's narrow POV the b/w film is sharply-written and anchored by three great tunrs from Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and especially Ralph Fiennes

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10/02/06
Emanuel Levy
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It's a noble achievement, and essential viewing.

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

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11/17/04
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama
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Dirigido com uma discrição pouco comum em Spielberg, o filme emociona por sua crueldade e conquista graças à complexidade do caráter de Schindler.

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06/04/04
Pablo Villaca
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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.

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05/27/04
Jeremy Heilman
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The film is as historically important as it is dramatic, and every high school student should see it.

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04/09/04
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal
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Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread.

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03/12/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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Spielberg is enough of a master showman to break up the horror with small rewards.

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03/12/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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