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.
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,
22 Feb 2013
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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,
6 May 2013
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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,
6 May 2013
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More than any previous non-documentary Holocaust movie, this one convinces through the accumulation of such detail.
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
6 May 2013
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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.