Schindler's List

Pros: cinematography, casting, sets, direction, script
Cons: stone laying ceremony, Schindler the saint

Universally acclaimed as one of the best films
ever made, "Schindler's List" lives up to its
reputation. Far different from director Steven
Spielberg's previous films, "Schindler's List" is
never manipulative...

Pros: Historically correct, informative, intriguing, incredible
Cons: will make you cry

It has been a year or so since I have seen the movie so please bear with me.

Steven Spielberg does an excellent job in successfully recounting the horrendous historical event that is the holocaust. There are many images etched into my mind...

Pros: acting, realism, tells a necessary story
Cons: none

In spite of its mature themes, Schindler's List should be required viewing for every 12th grade government class. This movie is one of the century's best. It is a must-see for so many reasons. Yes, it is a great film, and great filmmaking, but it's...

Pros: This is, for me, what the cinema is all about -- "List" is Spielberg's finest work
Cons: none

The counterpoint between Oskar Schindler's greed and Oskar Schindler's kindness -- the kindness that saved over one thousand Jews from being swallowed up by the Holocaust -- cannot be overemphasized, for greed and kindness are two of the basic, natural...

Pros: didactic, emotionally powerful, brutally realistic (except for English dialogue)
Cons: Characters speaking English, ending is a rip-off of "Europa, Europa"

This film has the effect of quicksand on me. Any time it is on television, I can't stop watching it. Although this film has earned millions of dollars and critical acclaim, I think Spielberg made this film primarily to teach the world about the...

Pros: Cast, some stunning set pieces.
Cons: Script, occasionally clunky direction, overly sentimental in parts.

There is some astonishingly good filmmaking in "Schindler's List", but as with all recent Spielberg films there are some very sloppy and overly-sentimental aspects to the film as well. The sentimentality is put to good effect in the sequence...

Pros: Harrowing and heartbreaking
Cons: English actors portraying Germans, detracts from the films reality

Spielberg’s greatest achievement, showing that he has ability far beyond the realm of special effects and simple story plot.

“Schindler’s List” follows the exploits of rich business man and Nazi Oskar Schindler as he tries to save Poland’s...

Pros: Everything.
Cons: None.

First, let me set the scene. It was about 1996 or 1997. My daughter was a high school junior. Her best friend was a Jewish Russian immigrant, and is my "unofficially adopted daughter" She was always here and became part of our family. She also...

Pros: Perfect portrail of a historical event
Cons: It is too bad this situation had to happen

This ss one of the best movies I have seen of historical events. The movie was graphic in the murders that was done to millions of innocent people. The man character was not an angel, and the movie showed his flaws with his wife, women, alcohol and...

Pros: Great Acting, chilling
Cons: Slow at some points

Shindler’s List is yet another great movie I hadn’t seen before, there something about a world war two opus drama that puts me off, most of the time I’m not in the mood for a movie like that, but seeing that the movie was “so good” I decided to take a...

Pros: Liam Neeson. Ben Kingsley
Cons: No hot-buttered popcorn

First of all, Schindler's List is an epic, a movie on a large scale. Like all epics, it should be seen in the theater, or at least on a large-screen television. The acting is first-rate, the cinematograpy awe-inspiring. From the Jewish chants that open...

Pros: Superb direction, acting, writing--every facet of filmmaking.
Cons: None.

Hailed as the best film to hit the screen in twenty years by critics, audiences, and actors alike, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List has won practically every conceivable award for film last year. It topped many critics' best lists of 1993 (this...

Pros: A tough and uncompromising look at the Holocaust, in stunning black and white photography
Cons: A little slow and muddled in the beginning

Many film critics have pointed to the Holocaust as a particularly difficult subject for directors to handle effectively. It seems impossible to capture the enormity of the destruction without somehow diminishing it. Most importantly, this episode of...

Pros: Right conquers evil
Cons: Heart wrenching

Where to begin? Some people would rather forget about the Third Reich and pretend the work camps and concentration camps never existed. I do not agree. I read the book before seeing the movie. I was afraid no one would be able to do the book justice,...

Pros: Perfect performances and great tale
Cons: None

"Schindler's List" is a true master piece of film making. Filmed by Steven Spielberg in black and white, adding to the realistic overall feel of the movie, provides the viewer with an accurate and historic view of a great story. The story of...