‘Something Beyond A Cautionary Tale.’ Critics Weigh In On Nuremberg And Russell Crowe’s Portrayal Of Hitler’s Right

There have been many great movies about war that have depicted the battles and the death and the horrors of it, but the new movie Nuremberg explores what happens next. Or, I should say what happened next, as the historical drama is set just after World War II, ahead of the real trials of 22 surviving leaders of Nazi Germany. Critics have seen the film ahead of its November 7 release on the 2025 movie calendar , and they’re calling it “an old-school Oscar movie.”

Rami Malek stars as Douglas Kelley, the chief psychiatrist in charge of determining if the German prisoners are competent to stand trial, who enters a battle of wits against Hermann Göring ( Russell Crowe ), Adolf Hitler’s right hand man. In CinemaBlend’s review of Nuremberg , Hugh Scott writes that while the second