Schindler's List Reviews
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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.
Read the full reviewEvinces an artistic rigor and unsentimental intelligence unlike anything the world's most successful filmmaker has demonstrated before.
Read the full reviewSpielberg restages the Holocaust with an existential vividness unprecedented in any nondocumentary film: He makes us feel as if we're living right inside the 20th century's darkest-and most defining-episode.
Read the full reviewWhat is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen. Individual scenes are masterpieces of art direction, cinematography, special effects, crowd control.
Read the full reviewSchindler's List, despite blatant compromises, is a rending historical document. But the film's near-certain victory is based less on merit than on the marketing of its ambitious intentions. The academy doesn't judge movies, it weighs them by subject matter. On that basis, Spielberg's epic tips the scales.
Read the full reviewThis heavy-hitting fist lands with calculated deliberation. Despite Spielberg's obviously genuine commitment, "Schindler's List" feels strangely controlled -- more than impassioned. It's officially artistic, an engineered project of pride, Little Stevie's growing-up project, rather than an organically brilliant masterpiece.
Read the full reviewA ruthlessly unsentimental portrait of a German war profiteer's epiphany that inspires neither sorrow nor pity, but a kind of emotional numbness.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 93
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Why all the nude scenes?
"I can't see this film because of all the nude scenes. Also, Frum Jews keeping mitzvos in the holocaust with great miseras nefesh I heard is ignored."
Moving
"This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It grips us, and its message is chilling. Bravo to Liam! Bravo to Spielberg! Bravo to such a great, powerful movie!"
Very powerful
"Everything about this movie from the fantastic score by John Williams to the acting (not by any one of the actors in particular more than others)is very powerful and great."
Great Movie
"needs more than five stars great movie unfortunatly it happened yet people Germany still say it never happened at least some do."
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