25 Definitively Best Movies EVER (According To Critics AND Fans)

7. Schindler's List (1993)

Score: 93

Schindler's List isn't an easy film to watch and nor is it particularly easy to love as a story, but it is easily one of Steven Spielberg's best-made movies. To think that the king of entertaining blockbusters could make something this jarring compared to his "lighter" fare is even more impressive, but the director simply employs all of his astute film-making observations to a different, non-fantastical world and achieves brilliant results.

Liam Neeson is great as tortured industrialist Oskar Schindler and there's great, humanist support from Ben Kingsley, but the stand-out performance is from Voldemort-in-training Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth, the terrifying, sadistic Nazi commandant of the work camp. His is the kind of performance that burrows itself under your nails and irritates and disgusts.

It's obviously an important movie in historical terms (which always appeals to critics), but if it weren't so well made and compelling it absolutely wouldn't be as cherished as it is.

Rotten Tomatoes: 97 Audience: 97 IMDB: 89 Letterboxd: 87 Metascore: 93