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Schindler's List

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Schindler's List

1993

Steven Spielberg

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall ...

8.6

175,870

Drama Oskar Schindler is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'Schindler's List' is a film whose meanings are to be found less in its uplifting outline than in its harrowing flow of images -- images of fear, hope, horror, compassion, degradation, chaos, and death"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Rising brilliantly to the challenge of this material and displaying an electrifying creative intelligence, Mr. Spielberg has made sure that neither he nor the Holocaust will ever be thought of in the same way again"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match. And that's what establishes this as a transcendent motion picture experience."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Schindler's List, despite blatant compromises, is a rending historical document"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Heartbreaking retelling of one man's affront to the Nazis (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Julie Salamon The Wall Street Journal	"A movie that falls outside the ordinary, or even the extraordinary. There is enormous passion and artistic integrity throughout this film"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A remarkable work by any standard (...) evinces an artistic rigor and unsentimental intelligence unlike anything the world’s most successful filmmaker has demonstrated before."	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Spielberg gives us Schindler's story with such conviction and urgency, such overwhelming visual sweep and force, that he keeps us virtually mesmerized for three hours."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"With flawless precision, the movie flows seamlessly between a virtual newsreel approach and a slightly more direct narrative technique that characterized the film's three dominant characters"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Mars-Jones The Independent	"'Schindler's List' is three partial films in one, a harrowing pseudo-documentary, an effective melodrama, and an embarrassing piece of kitsch movie- making"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen. Individual scenes are masterpieces of art direction, cinematography, special effects, crowd control."	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Director Steven Spielberg has achieved something close to the impossible--a morally serious, aesthetically stunning historical epic that is nonetheless readily accessible to a mass audience."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr New York Daily News	"The film’s long middle section, which describes the working of the death camps, is concrete and utterly terrifying, certainly the most intense and uncompromising depiction of the Nazi horror ever to appear in a fiction film."	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"Ultimately, the film is memorable as much for simple testimony as for the cinematic art it displays."	POS
United States	John Hartl Seattle Times	"Spielberg has created one of the most shocking movies yet made about the Holocaust and one of the most inspiring"	POS
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"By any measure, the horrifying yet powerfully uplifting 'Schindler's List' from director Steven Spielberg is a milestone in the art of filmmaking"	POS

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