Nuremberg
2025
***
Director: James Vanderbilt
Cast: Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Richard E. Grant, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek
At the end of World War II, the Allied Forces establish a war tribunal to prosecute the surviving top brass of the Nazi regime for war crimes. U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley is tasked with evaluating the mental health of the men in custody, and Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring proves to be a tough nut to crack. This historical drama about the Nuremberg Trials focuses on legal procedures and psychological mind games, which are not always particularly gripping or sufficient to justify the 148-minute runtime. Nevertheless, Russell Crowe delivers one of his most compelling performanced in years. Based on Jack El-Hai's 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.
