Reviews in the U.S.
“Spielberg shows a firm moral and emotional grasp of his material. The film is an outstanding achievement,” John Gross, Hollywood and the Holocaust. (The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=2334)
Janet Maslin of the New York Times, Books, says in the review "Schindler's List": Imagining the Holocaust to Remember It, posted in the New York Times:
“There is a real photographic record of some of the people and places depicted in ‘Schindler's List,’ and it has a haunting history,”
"Schindler's List" brings a pre-eminent pop mastermind together with a story that demands the deepest reserves of courage and passion.”

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-schindler.html