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.
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
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5/5 |
a beautiful masterpiece... even though it's the hardest movie ever to watch Full Review |
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10/10 |
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Accessible ... . Full Review |
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This is the film to win over Spielberg skeptics. Full Review |
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5/5 |
This is a beautifully crafted, hopeful movie. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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87/100 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Spielberg has painted his masterpiece with his own blood. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A- |
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 Full Review |
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It's a noble achievement, and essential viewing. Full Review |
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B+ |
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 |
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5/5 |
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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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 |
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The film is as historically important as it is dramatic, and every high school student should see it. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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