Midway through Nuremberg, prosecutors play for their Nuremberg trial attendees never-before-seen footage shot at various Nazi concentration camps, and James Vanderbilt’s drama more or less pauses its fictionalized action to gaze in horror, like its characters, at this appalling documentary material.

It’s a sequence of overpowering ghastliness, definitively making the proceedings’ case about the necessity of confronting the truth in order to achieve justice. It’s also, unfortunately, a high point never matched by the rest of the film, which is undone by storytelling that, however well-intentioned, coats its real-life tale in a corny Hollywood sheen.

Sixty-four years after Stanley Kramer’s Judgement at Nuremberg, Nuremberg (November 7, in theaters) adapts Jack El-Hai’s 2013 book The Nazi

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