Nuremberg

Nuremberg

2025

James Vanderbilt

Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall ...

6.9

5,135

Thriller. Drama

Thriller. Drama

After the end of World War II, on the occasion of the crucial Nuremberg trials of the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime, American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Malek), charged with determining whether Nazi prisoner officers are fit to stand trial for their war crimes, finds himself locked in a complex battle of wits with Hermann Göring (Crowe), Hitler's right-hand man... Based on the book "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" by Jack El-Hai. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"Russell Crowe And Rami Malek In Thrilling And Urgent Nazi Drama More Relevant Than Ever (...) I can think of a few world leaders who should screen this movie as soon as possible."
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'Nuremberg' competent and watchable as it is, isn’t big on psychological tension or insight (...) [It] never truly lays bare the man behind the evil myth."
		Radheyan Simonpillai The Guardian	"Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Powerfully directed and performed (...) [It] couldn't have arrived at a more consequential time"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"In both feel and form, 'Nuremberg' is either classic or staid, depending on your stomach for such films. All of it is necessary. None of it is new."
		Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"here are just two moments in James Vanderbilt’s 'Nuremberg' that feel genuine. Just two. In a film depicting the trial of Nazi war criminals by the first International Military Tribunal in history, that’s not ideal"
		Ethan Vestby The Film Stage	"'Nuremberg' begins seriously faltering once it actually gets to the courtroom and reveals that not much complexity is at hand"
		Matthew Creith The Wrap	"“Nuremberg” benefits not only from a terrifying performance from Crowe in a larger-than-life role (...), but also from the ensemble of actors that makes it possible to doubt and also sympathize with the crimes at hand."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"This lumbering, well-meaning drama isn’t nimble enough to make it sting."
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"Despite running over two and a half hours, Nuremberg flies by, with Vanderbilt giving the film a solid pace while Brian Tyler’s score thunders on the soundtrack (...) Rating: 9 (out of 10)"
		Ankit Jhunjhunwala Screen Anarchy	"[It] has the bland competence of historical dramas of old, jumping from city to city, a stately, desaturated color scheme to evoke the past and a flat handsomeness in terms of period detail and costume design"
		Tom Shone The Sunday Times	"For all its window dressing as a clinical assessment, the psychological insights offered up are not worth the napkin on which they were jotted (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Ross Bonaime Collider	"it is a bit of a shame Nuremberg isn’t finding a more compelling, enticing way to tell this inherently fascinating true story."
		Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"A challenging psychological drama that demands patience, [but] it is rewarded by Russell Crowe’s chilling precision and a devastating third act that refuses to let history be forgotten (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Zachary Lee rogerebert.com	"A film of prescient urgency and distinguished importance, but whose rote delivery occasionally stifles its ambitions"
		Barry Levitt Empire	"Well-paced, expertly performed, and an urgent call to stand up to fascism, [it] is a powerful, sweeping story of the attempt to bring an unthinkable evil to justice (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Patrick Cremona Radio Times	"Russell Crowe is captivating as Hermann Göring in this compelling but somewhat muddled drama set during the Nuremberg trials (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide The New York Observer	"A towering performance by Russell Crowe as the wily and charismatic Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring is the main reason to watch this solid period drama"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"It’s fantastically entertaining, yes, but it doesn’t need, and certainly should not have included, devastating real-life Holocaust footage to underpin the thrills (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jonathan Romney Financial Times	"[It] is intelligent, serious-minded, impeccably honourable stuff (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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