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
91
TheWrapMatthew CreithSep 9, 2025
Nuremberg benefits not only from a terrifying performance from Crowe in a larger-than-life role like those that defined the early part of his career, but also from the ensemble of actors. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenSep 9, 2025
Vanderbilt’s commanding Nuremberg couldn’t have arrived at a more consequential time. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonNov 6, 2025
Rami Malek and Russell Crowe lead a cast of actors doing excellent work in this large scale, old school ensemble piece. Read full review
80
EmpireBarry LevittNov 14, 2025
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. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenNov 12, 2025
It’s weird, in the year 2025, that it seems timely to point out that the Nazis were bad. But Nuremberg, an old-fashioned and satisfyingly complex morality tale in the guise of a courtroom drama and spy thriller, does that job in impressive style. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzNov 10, 2025
Altogether, it’s a solid film of 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. Read full review
75
Washington PostMonica HesseNov 6, 2025
This movie would have done better two-thirds as long but focused more tightly, or four times longer and airing on Netflix as a limited series. Still: The human and the historian in me feels compelled to recommend it. Because movies about atrocities are necessary. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMatthew JacksonNov 6, 2025
Vanderbilt’s film slowly, confidently morphs into something beyond a cautionary tale and more like a klaxon blaring through the cinema. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 6, 2025
Not enough can be said for how strong [Crowe] is in this film, and how welcome it is every time he appears on screen. He seems able to read people. He also seems German, complete with German gestures. Read full review
75
Original-CinLiz BraunNov 5, 2025
The ponderous storytelling is such that you’re always aware you’re watching a movie. Read full review
70
The Irish TimesTara BradyNov 12, 2025
For all the Hollywood gloss, Vanderbilt sounds an alarming relevance in Göring’s sneering claim that Hitler “made us feel German again” and Triest’s warning that “it happened because people let it happen”. Read full review
70
Film ThreatAlex SavelievNov 10, 2025
Nuremberg is a competently made, overlong, corny, entertaining, poignant epic made by the filmmaker responsible for writing classics like Zodiac and duds like Independence Day: Resurgence — a jumble of the man’s best and worst tendencies. Scattershot? Yes. Way too long? Sure. Predictable? Yes. Cheesy? Yes. Did I secretly kinda love it? No comment, your honor. Read full review
70
IGNCarlos MoralesNov 6, 2025
Nuremberg doesn’t quite stand up with the best films centered on World War II, but it does a respectable job dramatizing the aftermath of the conflict. The film is anchored by a strong cast, led by another great turn by Russell Crowe, and a consistent thematic throughline, but the first act’s use of ill-timed humor doesn’t do the film any favors. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureJason GorberSep 9, 2025
The prevention of the rise of similar evil is an unending project needing similar vigilance and tenacity as expressed by many of those captured here on screen in “Nuremberg.” Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshNov 6, 2025
While the subject matter makes Nuremberg worth the watch, the film itself is a mixed bag, with some towering performances (Crowe and Shannon), and some poor ones. It manages to eke out its message in the eleventh hour, but it feels too little too late, in our cultural moment, despite its evergreen importance. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrNov 4, 2025
What does it say about a nearly two-and-a-half hour drama when the 80-year-old footage from inside Nazi concentration camps that was shown inside the real courtroom is the most compelling and memorable sequence? Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonNov 1, 2025
Just as Stanley Kramer’s Judgement at Nuremberg explored the Nuremberg trials against the backdrop of the emerging Cold War, James Vanderbilt’s film holds the trials up as a mirror to our current era of authoritarianism. Read full review
62
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzNov 6, 2025
There are multiple endings of various potency, secondary characters who bizarrely drop out of the proceedings, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the real-life tension that drove so much of the trial’s backroom machinations, with the most fascinating element of the central Goring-Kelley relationship reduced to a quick line of end-credit text. Read full review
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