Nuremberg

This taut, well-paced courtroom drama may be about history, but that doesn’t mean that you know all the details. Following a hotshot psychiatrist brought in to see to captured Nazi leaders during their trial, it turns into a cat-and-mouse game between the shrink Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), the American prosecutor Associate Justice Robert Jackson (Michael Shannon), and Herman Goring (Russell Crowe). It’s a fantastic performance by all three, and hammers home the dangers of allowing narcissists into power. There is some disturbing archival footage of the Holocaust in the midst of the film, but that hasn’t stopped it from getting a 95% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes and Oscar buzz for Crowe, Malek, and the costumes and makeup.

“My God, we should all see this movie. Show it again and again.” -Monica Hesse, Washington Post
“Well-paced, expertly performed, and an urgent call to stand up to fascism, Nuremberg is a powerful, sweeping story of the attempt to bring an unthinkable evil to justice.” -Barry Levitt, Empire Magazine
“The very epitome of traditional awards season material, Nuremberg is intelligent, serious-minded, impeccably honourable stuff” -Jonathan Romney, Financial Times
“Crowe and Malek are well cast for this kind of dance. The former is a battering ram of an onscreen presence, mixed here with an unnerving sense of comfort in his surroundings.” -Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK)
“You can feel archival poring that went into the research. It lends authenticity and intellectual rigour to this extraordinary, century-defining event. Crowe and co do the rest.” -Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
“An all-star period effort that leans entertaining, though gets deadly serious exactly when it needs to, the film hinges on the matching of wits between Rami Malek as an Army psychiatrist and Russell Crowe as one of the most evil men in the world.” -Brian Truitt, USA Today
“This movie isn’t consumed with self-importance, despite some obvious parallels to current events. This is entertainment that happens to be rooted in reality about a day of reckoning the likes of which the world hasn’t seen in a long, long time” -Leonard Maltin, LeonardMaltin.com
“Crowe’s impeccable German accent and hauteur are Oscar-wattage, complemented by restrained and resonant performances by Rami Malek as an American psychiatrist with his own agenda.” -Thelma Adams, AARP Movies for Grownups
“Nuremberg works best when it’s loud, urgent, and almost hysterically earnest in its messaging, not because it’s a particularly new message, but because it once again feels like something someone must scream from the rooftops.” -Matthew Jackson, AV Club
“It’s a solid film of [a] kind that used to be more common: an earnest, unpretentious Oscar Movie that wants to be seen by everyone, and consequently doesn’t try to be too complex or arty. It wants to educate and inspire as well as entertain, and isn’t shy about that ambition.” -Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
“Nuremberg is well paced, as a thriller, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of history and the human capacity for evil and for good.” -Nell Minow, Movie Mom

Nuremberg will open at The Clyde on Friday, January 30, and play Friday, Saturday & Monday at 7:30, plus Sunday at 2:00.