Fresh
For this film Spielberg has done the best directing of his career. Much of his previous work has been clever and some of it better than that, but Schindler's List is masterly.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Schindler's List
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
1993 · 3h 15m · R
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Overview
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Director and cast
- Steven Spielberg Director
- Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler
- Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern
- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
- Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler
- Jonathan Sagall as Poldek Pfefferberg
- Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch
- Małgorzata Gebel as Victoria Klonowska
- Shmuel Levy Cast
- Mark Ivanir Cast
- Béatrice Macola Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
More than any previous non-documentary Holocaust movie, this one convinces through the accumulation of such detail.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
Schindler's List is filmed in black and white, but the triumph of Neeson's portrait and Steven Zaillian's screenplay is that Oskar Schindler remains gray and enigmatic.
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
What the visual immediacy of Schindler's List does is to prod each of us to fill in the gaps of emotion for ourselves. To put this another way, the more you are able to invest in this superb, demanding film, the more you are likely to get back.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Few American movies since the silent era have had anything approaching this picture's narrative boldness, visual audacity, and emotional directness.
Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
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