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FilipHolm

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Oh my... here we go... It has been a good while since i reviewed a movie.

So, to just put it out there, Schindler's list is an incredibly powerful movie. No movie that i have seen in a long time has touched me like this. I have to...
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Oh my... here we go... It has been a good while since i reviewed a movie.

So, to just put it out there, Schindler's list is an incredibly powerful movie. No movie that i have seen in a long time has touched me like this. I have to say, Spielberg really showed what talent he really has in this movie. First, the dialouge and plot was just amazing, every conversation was so well written, it kept you intrested at all times. Some scenes where so powerfull you would just sit with your mouth wide open. And I have to admit, tears went down my cheekes at the end of the movie.
Steven Spielberg is a director that I think has a lot of ups and downs. He can make a movie that is brilliant and artisticly amazing. And the next movie he makes can mediocre at best. But Schindler's List is Spielberg deffinate highlight in directing, it is simply brilliant. I was completely spellbound, and he showes that he deserves to be called one of the greatest. He just gives the movie such a mood it is fantasitc, and together with John Williams music, some scenes, like the shower scene... you just have to watch it to understand. Also, some scenes are so realisticly done that you can't look, like for example, say, someone gets shot it the head.
The acting is also superb, Liam Neeson is convincing, as well as Ben Kingsley who does one of his better roles, even though he doesn't get that much time to show it, and of cource Ralph Fiennes, he makes such a convincing portrayal of this mad man you just want to strangle him to death.
To sum it all up, Schindler's List is one of the best movies i've seen in a long time, and also one of the better i've seen at all. It took me this long to see it and I don't understand why, this is deffinatly a masterpiece, and I don't give out a lot of five stars, but hell, Spielberg and the guys deseves it.

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Posted oct 22, 2009 9:38 am pt

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Wow, what a powerful movie. I can't believe it's taken me this long to see it. For a three plus hour movie, it didn't feel like it. You can't get the full effect from reading history books about this, Spielberg does a great job of putting you...
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Wow, what a powerful movie. I can't believe it's taken me this long to see it. For a three plus hour movie, it didn't feel like it. You can't get the full effect from reading history books about this, Spielberg does a great job of putting you there. The part with the kids being taken away on the trucks really got to me. Liam Neeson's scene at the end was amazing.

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Posted sep 22, 2009 12:45 pm pt

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I say this movie in 11th grade for a projet and it blew my away. I read about all the horor and saw pictures, but this film really puts you in context. Simply amazing. the actors are wonderfull. It brought be to tears every time the children were...
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I say this movie in 11th grade for a projet and it blew my away. I read about all the horor and saw pictures, but this film really puts you in context. Simply amazing. the actors are wonderfull. It brought be to tears every time the children were being hurt or trying to run away. I recomend this film.

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Posted jan 15, 2009 3:28 am pt

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one of the best films off all time.

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Posted nov 26, 2008 10:19 pm pt

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Very good and very well done a master peice representing the hardships of the jewish people and the one man who did his part and fought to save them great acting and direction

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Posted oct 22, 2008 6:13 am pt

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Simply amazing. The fact that it's based on a true story is very scary though.

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Posted apr 7, 2008 11:22 pm pt

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Spielberg, you are a genius! Schindler's List has got to be one of Spielberg's best films, partly because of the true story itself, and it contains some of the most horrifying but deep and meaningful scenes in a movie ever.

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Spielberg, you are a genius! Schindler's List has got to be one of Spielberg's best films, partly because of the true story itself, and it contains some of the most horrifying but deep and meaningful scenes in a movie ever.

Schindler's List tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, and how he sets up a company and manufacters goods for the War, and profits from Jews by working and saving them in the factory. It is amazing of how one man, profits from a low profile, yet creates a huge impact for all the Jews and people around him, and Spielberg presents the film with the same depth the story has to offer itself.

Schindler's List has a huge array of many powerful sequences, that genuinely feel necassary, and don't look they are there just to impress us, the pioneer it's incredibly sad scenario forward in ways you just wouldn't imagine.

For instance, one scene where Oskar sees many people being taken away to their death, and Oskar tells them to squirt wine and water for them inside the trucks, and telling them where to aim. Sequences like that truly show what a great person Oskar Schindler was, and Schindler's List in general tells us one important thing:

how to care for those in danger, and how to save those in trouble in the darkest of times, and how to still perservere with your life.

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Posted mar 5, 2008 3:56 am pt

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This movie is so powerful in it's presentation. It leaves you exhausted after watching. I highly recommend this to everyone.

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Posted feb 8, 2008 10:10 am pt

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One word review: Powerful.

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Posted jun 29, 2007 1:03 pm pt

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One of the greatest movies ever! The story of Oskar Schindler, a man who saved over 1000 jews from the nazi "final solution". What the movie doesn't tell you is that, after the war, Schindler was sued by the jews he saved because they...
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One of the greatest movies ever! The story of Oskar Schindler, a man who saved over 1000 jews from the nazi "final solution". What the movie doesn't tell you is that, after the war, Schindler was sued by the jews he saved because they sad he didn't give them enough food. They even won the trial and took most of his money.

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Posted jun 3, 2007 3:07 am pt

• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  100
  What is surprising is how well Spielberg captures the horror, moving his camera with the fury of a combat photographer on the run. [17 Dec 1993]

  by Gene Siskel | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  100
  The other key part is Schindler's Jewish accountant, played with self-effacing brilliance by Ben Kingsley, who gives the movie just the touch of warmth and sanity it needs.

  by John Hartl | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  100
  Director Steven Spielberg has achieved something close to the impossible--a morally serious, aesthetically stunning historical epic that is nonetheless readily accessible to a mass audience.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  100
  What 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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  Spielberg 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.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  100
  Epic cinema, tragic drama, it is also an act of remembrance and conscience that ultimately transcends the ordinary critical categories.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  100
  Evinces an artistic rigor and unsentimental intelligence unlike anything the world's most successful filmmaker has demonstrated before.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Republic
  
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  And Ben Kingsley--O rare Ben Kingsley!--is the Jewish accountant whom Schindler plucks from a condemned group to run his business and who combines gratitude with disdain, subservience with pride. (Actors who want to study the basis of acting--concentration--should watch Kingsley.) [13 Dec 1993]

  by Stanley Kauffmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  By any measure, the horrifying yet powerfully uplifting Schindler's List from director Steven Spielberg is a milestone in the art of filmmaking. [15 Dec 1993]

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
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  With flawless precision, the movie flows seamlessly between a virtual newsreel approach (to chronicle senseless, arbitrary atrocities on the people) and a slightly more direct narrative technique that characterized the film's three dominant characters - each one cast to perfection. [15 Dec 1993]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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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.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  But the film Schindler's List, directed with fury and immediacy by a profoundly surprising Steven Spielberg, presents the subject as if discovering it anew. [15 Dec 1993]

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  Overall this film is truly a triumph, its greatness being revealed in its tiny moments - the close-up of a swastika badge that introduces Neeson or the bungled defiance of Fiennes at his hanging.

  by Kim Newman | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
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  Few American movies since the silent era have had anything approaching this picture's narrative boldness, visual audacity, and emotional directness. [20 Dec 1993, p.129]

  by Terrence Rafferty | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
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  A movie that falls outside the ordinary, or even the extraordinary. There is enormous passion and artistic integrity throughout this film. [11 Jan 1994, p.A10(E)]

  by Julie Salamon | Read Full Review »