Nuremberg
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
18
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The TimesKevin MaherNov 14, 2025
Flawed to its core but never less than riveting Read full review
60
iFrancesca SteeleNov 14, 2025
This hybrid never feels quite cohesive enough, the pace somehow both rushed and yet too slow. One feels Vanderbilt’s panic at the enormity of the topic. That’s not to say there isn’t a lot to admire. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyNov 13, 2025
While it pleads for us to reckon with the ugliest of truths, it shuts the curtains before its own reckoning is done. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyNov 13, 2025
If the film had been tightened to two hours of Crowe and Shannon ruthlessly going at it, we might have been mesmerised. Read full review
60
The Travers TakePeter TraversNov 7, 2025
What to do when a great actor is stuck in a not-so-great movie? You bite the bullet and watch anyway for Russell Crowe at his cunning, commanding best as Hermann Göring, a Nazi whose soft-pedaled narcissism gives him gobs of unearned confidence. Enough to fool his shrink (Rami Malek) and the tribunal judges at Nuremberg? That’s the idea. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeSep 15, 2025
Quite frankly, it never hurts for a film to preach the dangers of Nazis and how they can be anywhere and everywhere, but it is a bit of a shame Nuremberg isn’t finding a more compelling, enticing way to tell this inherently fascinating true story. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 9, 2025
The film presents itself as lavishly somber and important and includes several not-so-veiled references to the rise of intolerance, and the need to maintain international standards of justice, in the world today. But Nuremberg, competent and watchable as it is, isn’t big on psychological tension or insight. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 9, 2025
Those laudable intentions can too often result in a lethargic narrative. The characters may contain degrees of shading, but they rarely come to life, leaving Nuremberg feeling like a professional but dusty reenactment. Read full review
60
The GuardianRadheyan SimonpillaiSep 9, 2025
The movie reduces Kelley’s psychiatric insights into soundbites, manages to whittle down the proceedings at the Nuremberg trials into the familiar tropes and cliches from classic courtroom movies, and even lets Crowe’s performance surrender its nuances to hammy villainy, all for the sake of reliable entertainment. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandSep 9, 2025
In both feel and form, Nuremberg is either classic or staid, depending on your stomach for such films. All of it is necessary. None of it is new. Read full review
55
The Daily BeastNick SchagerNov 8, 2025
Undone by storytelling that, however well-intentioned, coats its real-life tale in a corny Hollywood sheen. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 7, 2025
The film’s great gift to this piece of much-filmed history is demythologizing Jackson, a figure the script and Shannon portray as well-intentioned, hard-nosed and out of his depth in attempting to try charismatic sociopaths that most of the world would rather had been rounded up and shot. Read full review
50
The Film StageEthan VestbySep 9, 2025
Nuremberg goes down easily enough for the first two acts, but you begin to question the purpose of the whole enterprise by the end, where it tries making a grander point about the pathology of evil that nothing in the rest of the film supported. Read full review
50
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodSep 9, 2025
The contemporary allegories are obvious, but too much of Vanderbilt’s screenplay gets lost in literal card tricks and heightened melodrama. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 14, 2025
Russell Crowe is rather wittily cast as the portly, pompous Reichsmarschall Göring; it’s the best he’s been for a long time, a sly and cunning manipulator playing psychological cat-and-mouse with the Americans. But there is a deeply silly performance from Rami Malek as Kelley. Read full review
40
Little White LiesLillian CrawfordNov 12, 2025
Vanderbilt seems to have his intentions in the right place, but the delivery has all the substance of Crowe’s prosthetic belly. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithNov 6, 2025
Like everyone else on hand, Mr. Woodall deserves a better director than he gets here, just as the audience deserves a better script than one that asks us to believe Göring was so clever he nearly dodged blame for the Holocaust. Read full review
40
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergNov 6, 2025
Evidently, as this muddled movie tells it, the climactic lesson of the Nuremberg trials was that America had a friend, too. Read full review
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