It brought the Holocaust to a mass non-Jewish audience at a time when survivors were dying of old age, and testimony was at risk of being lost.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 7, 2024

Spielberg employs all the emotive Hollywood tools at his disposal and the result is a remarkable film with wide appeal and real importance. Neeson is phenomenal, but matched by towering performances from Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2024

A great film, a powerful film, and even if it’s not the definitive American Holocaust film, it remains on the very short list of the most important ones. (30th anniversary)

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 19, 2023

This isn't your high-octane thriller; rather, acts of heroism unfold with a deliberate, strategic cadence.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2023

Spielberg’s most personal film is also his finest and most altruistic.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2023

It's the faces that make Schindler's List a magnificent, harrowing, stomach-wrenching, emotional piece of cinema.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2022

Schindler's List is not only a masterpiece but something of a miracle.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2022

A film of immense power and the deepest sincerity.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

It’s a bad business

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 5, 2022

Steven Spielberg's triumphant Schindler's List is a remarkable and moving memorial to an historical Holocaust. It is also a timely reminder of what genocide and "ethnic cleansing" really mean. But, above all, it is a cracking movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 7, 2022

Using every ounce of his awe some technical skill, the man who sent T. rex and Indiana Jones racing through our imagination brings us a story of human horror beyond imagination.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2021

Once in a very great while, a movie insinuates itself so deeply into your consciousness that it offers not vicarious experience but instead, direct experience. Steven Spielberg's heartfelt, monumental Schindler's List is such a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 15, 2021

This is a movie that succeeds brilliantly not just in bringing a terrible chapter in history back to life, but in meticulously depicting the processes through which a self-obsessed and immature man becomes integrated and responsible.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 15, 2021

There are enough "Spielbergian" set pieces and incidental touches to keep Schindler accessible to those who believe that the best Spielberg is the perky Spielberg of the E.T. and Indiana Jones romps.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 15, 2021

How does one comprehend the magnitude of the Holocaust? Remarkably, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List defines the horror of Hitler's "final solution" on vividly human terms without diminishing its scope or impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 15, 2021

Few films have ever dealt so chillingly with what philosopher Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil."

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 15, 2021

Liam Neeson is a splendid Schindler, tall, handsome, devil-may-care and a poker-playing genius. Ben Kingsley, as Itzhak Stern, Schindler's accountant and chief aide, is as brilliant as ever, and Ralph Fiennes is evil and powerful as Amon Goeth.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2021

A towering cinematic accomplishment from director Steven Spielberg that left all other 1993 films in its wake.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Apr 15, 2021

Spielberg's dazzlingly modulated epic Schindler's List is nothing less than astonishing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 15, 2021

A near-documentary, brilliantly designed and choreographed, [and] a character study in which Ralph Fiennes, the winningly urbane Liam Neeson, and the magnificently impassive Ben Kingsley attain a memorable dramatic intensity.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2021