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Now playing: NUREMBERG (2025)
Built like a 40 cubic foot upright Frigidaire, Russell Crowe’s Hermann Göring fits both the accent and baby blue Reichsmarschall uniform bang on.
Five-foot-two, clad in blue, hopes his lawyer is a Jew, will Oscar smile on Gö-ö-ring?
NUREMBERG (2025) James Vanderbilt / Writer: James Vanderbilt based on Jack El-Hai’s "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" / Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski (2.35 : 1) / Design: Eve Stewart / Editor: Tom Eagles / Composer: Brian Tyler / Acted by: Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Lydia Peckham, Colin Hanks, Richard E. Grant, Mark O'Brien, Richard Slattery, Andreas Pietschmann / Countries of origin: USA & Hungary / Rated PG-13 / Produced & Distributed by: Walden Media & Sony Pictures Classics / Length: 148 min.
Rule #1: Always run the credits through IMDB prior to showtime, lest the sight of the Walden Media logo hit you with such force it wedges your lumbar region into the gap between seat cushion and backrest and, in the case of Nuremberg, traps you there for an uncompromising 148 minutes. Walden Media has produced predominantly uplifting, family-friendly, oftentimes faith-based fare for every major and minor studio, even Blumhouse. Their biggest payday to date was a partnership with Disney for a series of C.S Lewis kidpics. What chance did The Chronicles of Göring have in Narnia-land?
In this year’s running for the Best Actor Oscar, Russell Crowe has steamrollered Rami Malik flatter than Hitler did Poland. Built like a 40 cubic foot upright Frigidaire, Crowe’s Hermann Göring fits both the accent and baby blue Reichsmarschall uniform bang on. His is a magnificent impression of the second most powerful Nazi in the lodge. Meanwhile, with lower lip tucked snugly beneath the upper, Malek's Dr. Douglas Kelley — the headshrinker assigned the task of putting Nazism on the couch — looks on bemusedly until the time comes for him to get mad, mean mad and let loose with the inner-bombast.
Video:
Trailer: NUREMBERG
Kelley’s taste for dabbling in magic sparks a running gag that begins on a train with flirtatious card tricks to impress Lila (Lydia Peckham), a reporter who goes on to leak confidential info she snarfs during their conversations. One of the few things Nuremberg has going for it is a refusal to further pad the running time with unnecessary romantic intrigue. (Remember the sand-on-the-tracks third-act dinner date between Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich in Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg?) After their first meeting, Lila gradually descends into the background. And for his final solution, writer-director James Vanderbilt contrives a cheap plot device so that the coroner could list “sleight-of-hand" as the cause of Göring’s death.
The CG period recreations, most notably a bombed-out Deutsches Stadion and a smeary attempt to replicate color newsreel footage, are at best lousy. If given the choice between Nuremberg, or for that matter Kramer’s parade of Hollywood luminaries taking the stand, you would do well to opt for neither. YouTube is rife with documentaries and restored footage of the actual trial.
Still, after all that carping, you might be surprised to learn how much I want Nuremberg to succeed at the box office. We’re at a point in our history where Holocaust denial is on the rise. I graduated from a predominantly Jewish high school in 1973, and don’t recall a single history teacher touching on the Holocaust. They didn’t need to. We learned from our parents the significance of the numbers inked on the arms of the family that ran the neighborhood bakery. For those who buy into the “myth of the 6 million” trumpery, seldom seen documentary footage of bodies bulldozed into mass graves should be enough to convince even the most braindead among them. Some people will always shout "Hoax!" But perhaps after witnessing this, their voices won't be quite as boisterous. *
Here's something you might be interested in.
Now playing: NUREMBERG (2025)
Built like a 40 cubic foot upright Frigidaire, Russell Crowe’s Hermann Göring fits both the accent and baby blue Reichsmarschall uniform bang on.
Now playing: NUREMBERG (2025)
Built like a 40 cubic foot upright Frigidaire, Russell Crowe’s Hermann Göring fits both the accent and baby blue Reichsmarschall uniform bang on.
Five-foot-two, clad in blue, hopes his lawyer is a Jew, will Oscar smile on Gö-ö-ring?
NUREMBERG (2025) James Vanderbilt / Writer: James Vanderbilt based on Jack El-Hai’s "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" / Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski (2.35 : 1) / Design: Eve Stewart / Editor: Tom Eagles / Composer: Brian Tyler / Acted by: Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Lydia Peckham, Colin Hanks, Richard E. Grant, Mark O'Brien, Richard Slattery, Andreas Pietschmann / Countries of origin: USA & Hungary / Rated PG-13 / Produced & Distributed by: Walden Media & Sony Pictures Classics / Length: 148 min.
Rule #1: Always run the credits through IMDB prior to showtime, lest the sight of the Walden Media logo hit you with such force it wedges your lumbar region into the gap between seat cushion and backrest and, in the case of Nuremberg, traps you there for an uncompromising 148 minutes. Walden Media has produced predominantly uplifting, family-friendly, oftentimes faith-based fare for every major and minor studio, even Blumhouse. Their biggest payday to date was a partnership with Disney for a series of C.S Lewis kidpics. What chance did The Chronicles of Göring have in Narnia-land?
In this year’s running for the Best Actor Oscar, Russell Crowe has steamrollered Rami Malik flatter than Hitler did Poland. Built like a 40 cubic foot upright Frigidaire, Crowe’s Hermann Göring fits both the accent and baby blue Reichsmarschall uniform bang on. His is a magnificent impression of the second most powerful Nazi in the lodge. Meanwhile, with lower lip tucked snugly beneath the upper, Malek's Dr. Douglas Kelley — the headshrinker assigned the task of putting Nazism on the couch — looks on bemusedly until the time comes for him to get mad, mean mad and let loose with the inner-bombast.
Video:
Trailer: NUREMBERG
Kelley’s taste for dabbling in magic sparks a running gag that begins on a train with flirtatious card tricks to impress Lila (Lydia Peckham), a reporter who goes on to leak confidential info she snarfs during their conversations. One of the few things Nuremberg has going for it is a refusal to further pad the running time with unnecessary romantic intrigue. (Remember the sand-on-the-tracks third-act dinner date between Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich in Stanley Kramer’s Judgment at Nuremberg?) After their first meeting, Lila gradually descends into the background. And for his final solution, writer-director James Vanderbilt contrives a cheap plot device so that the coroner could list “sleight-of-hand" as the cause of Göring’s death.
The CG period recreations, most notably a bombed-out Deutsches Stadion and a smeary attempt to replicate color newsreel footage, are at best lousy. If given the choice between Nuremberg, or for that matter Kramer’s parade of Hollywood luminaries taking the stand, you would do well to opt for neither. YouTube is rife with documentaries and restored footage of the actual trial.
Still, after all that carping, you might be surprised to learn how much I want Nuremberg to succeed at the box office. We’re at a point in our history where Holocaust denial is on the rise. I graduated from a predominantly Jewish high school in 1973, and don’t recall a single history teacher touching on the Holocaust. They didn’t need to. We learned from our parents the significance of the numbers inked on the arms of the family that ran the neighborhood bakery. For those who buy into the “myth of the 6 million” trumpery, seldom seen documentary footage of bodies bulldozed into mass graves should be enough to convince even the most braindead among them. Some people will always shout "Hoax!" But perhaps after witnessing this, their voices won't be quite as boisterous. *
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