Spielberg's best

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2002)

Steven Spielberg have made movie masterpieces left and right. His movie classics include "E.T.", "Jaws", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Close Encounter's of the Third Kind", "Jurassic Park", "Saving Private Ryan", and "The Color Purple". I love all of those films. However, "Schindler's List" is his #1 masterpiece. The movie that would finally win him the Best Director Oscar after losing and being snubbed by the Academy for years, "Schindler's List" takes place during the Holocaust and tells the story of Oscar Schindler, the real-life German war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Polish Jews. This is one of the most powerful movies ever made, lasting over 3 hours long and shot in beautiful black-and-white. Winner of 7 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), "Schindler's List" features spectacular performances by Liam Neeson as Oscar Schindler, Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant, and Ralph Fiennes in one of the scariest movie performances of all time as an evil Nazi commandant. A harrowing, powerful film that will live on forever, "Schindler's List" is an outstanding movie that I'll never forget.
**** (out of four)