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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Inga Parkel

Film critics say Russell Crowe is back in awards contention more than 20 years since last Oscar nomination

Russell Crowe’s performance in the new World War II drama Nuremberg has floored film critics, with many eagerly predicting he will earn his fourth Oscar nomination for his “towering” and “superb” portrayal of Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring.

Directed by James Vanderbilt (Truth) and out in theaters Friday, Nuremberg is about U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (played by Rami Malek), who gets locked in a psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring (Crowe) as the Nuremberg trials are set to begin.

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