2025 • Sony Pictures/Sony Pictures Classics
Rated: PG-13
Length: 2 hr 28min
Epic ~ Historical Drama ~ Psychological Thriller ~ True Story
Director: James Vanderbilt
Writer: Screenplay by James Vanderbilt
Actors: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, and Richard E. Grant.
Judgment Is Coming.
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Nuremberg (2025) is based on The Book
In 1945 Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, along with fifty-one senior Nazis, of whom Göring was the dominant figure. The US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise and evaluate them. It was the opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. But Kelley’s quest would prove to be a dangerous one. The more he spoke with the Nazi captives, the more he began to understand and appreciate their perspective—and the more he would fall for their charms.
Nuremberg (2025) – Review
On May 7, 1945, Adolf Hitler’s Second in Command Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), along with his family, surrendered to American forces in Austria. The next day Nazi Germany surrendered to The Allies. Allied Forces also captured 21 other High Ranking Nazi Leaders and they, along with Hermann Göring, were being held at a makeshift prison in Luxembourg. The United Kingdom wanted to summarily execute the Nazi Leaders and The Soviet Union wanted a Show Trial but The United States and France argued that a fair Trial had to take place. US associate Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) is approached and tasked with establishing an International Tribunal to charge Hermann Göring and the 21 other Nazi Leaders with War Crimes.
U.S. Army psychiatrist Lt Col. Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) is summoned to Luxembourg to evaluate the mental health of Hermann Göring and the 21 other Nazi Leaders. As he does, he also sees it as an opportunity to examine the psyche of the men who have perpetrated evil on the world. He spends an enormous amount of time with the 22 Nazi Leaders delving into their personalities and rationales, but spends most of his time with Göring, and gets to know him better than anyone ever has. In doing so, he also puts himself in a position where he becomes vulnerable psychologically with the second most evil man in the Nazi Regime.
Nuremberg is like a psychological chess match between the evil Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and The American Psychiatrist Douglas Kelley digging into his psyche.. Russell Crowe plays Hermann Göring with unnerving charm and calculation, capturing both the grotesque ego of a fallen warlord and the slippery charisma that lets him dominate every room, even in defeat. Rami Malek’s Douglas Kelley is the quieter center of gravity, a man of science and duty whose clinical curiosity slowly shades into fascination and self-doubt as he spends more time inside Göring’s orbit. Together, their scenes have a tight, chess-match energy: Göring probing for leverage, Kelley trying to hold the line between understanding a monster and inadvertently empathizing with him.
It’s this fraught dynamic between the two that makes Nuremberg compelling and worth watching. Russell Crowe‘s portrayal of Hermann Göring has generated serious Oscar buzz, with many calling it his best work in years—commanding, chilling, and layered with a mix of grotesque charm and menace that dominates every scene. I would have to whole-heartedly agree. It was a spellbinding performance, riveting even, I couldn’t look away as Russell and Rami mentally battled wits in the confines of a prison cell. At almost two and a half hours, it went by quick. Highly Recommended!
Nuremberg (2025) – Review by Bobby @ Streaming Movie Night.
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