Oh, please

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2000)

Schindler's List is an awful movie: unstintingly sentimental and heavy-handedly manipulative. The only reason it's so loved is because of the subject matter. As presented in the book, Oskar Schindler was a complicated, not entirely admirable man. Too complex, in other words, to be the central character in one of Steven Spielberg's simple-minded morality tales. Practically the only good thing in it (apart from its intentions) is the acting.