a beautiful masterpiece... even though it's the hardest movie ever to watch
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07/05/08
Schindler's List (1993)
96 %
Reviews Counted: 55 Fresh: 53 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
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 cheap labor to produce cookware for the Third Reich.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle
Director: Steven Spielberg
Composer: John Williams
Story: Thomas Keneally
Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian
Producer: Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg
Composer: John Williams
Story: Thomas Keneally
Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian
Producer: Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg
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04/07/08
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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.
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.
09/09/07
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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.
02/05/07
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
10/02/06
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
Dirigido 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
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.
05/27/04
The film is as historically important as it is dramatic, and every high school student should see it.
04/09/04
Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread.
03/12/04
Spielberg is enough of a master showman to break up the horror with small rewards.
03/12/04
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
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