Nuremberg Review: Russell Crowe's Bold Choice To Play An Infamous Nazi Doesn't Always Work

Russell Crowe in Nuremberg.

The Nuremberg Trials were one of the most pivotal moments of the 20th century. On the heels of World War II, the Allies, for the first time in history, would put the aggressors of that war on trial for those aggressions, the Holocaust, and their crimes against humanity. The trials, especially the first trial that condemned the highest-ranking Nazis still living after the war, set precedents that are still in use today in international law. Nuremberg, from writer/director James Vanderbilt and starring Russell Crowe as the infamous Nazi Hermann Göring and Rami Malek as a psychiatrist studying the imprisoned war criminal, isn’t going to set any precedents.

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Release Date: November 7, 2025
Directed By: James Vanderbilt
Written By: James Vanderbilt, based on a book by Jack El-Hai
Starring: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, John Slattery, Leo Woodall
Rating: PG-13 for violent content involving the Holocaust, strong disturbing images, suicide, some language, smoking and brief drug content
Runtime: 148 minutes