The new WW2 movie followers are calling an ‘prompt traditional’ | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

A brand new World War Two movie has been dubbed an prompt traditional, with it turning into a giant hit with viewers and incomes a powerful rating on movie overview web site Rotten Tomatoes. Nuremberg, first launched on September 7, 2025, on the Toronto International Film Festival, is a psychological thriller and historic drama based mostly on the 2013 ebook The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai.

The Rotten Tomatoes synopsis of the movie written and directed by James Vanderbilt reads: “As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a US Army psychiatrist gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring.”

Nuremberg stars the likes of Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant and Michael Shannon, whose performances had been extremely praised by audiences.

One reviewer wrote: “Compelling story with excellent acting and directing.”

A second wrote: “Nuremberg is a gripping and deeply relevant historical drama that feels more urgent today than ever.”

A 3rd additionally famous the “brilliant acting” while including that the movie is an “untold story that EVERYONE should see,” earlier than describing it as “Oscar worthy”.

The movie was even dubbed as “the movie of the YEAR!!!” by a fan who rated it 5 stars out of 5.

Touching on the significance of the story, one fan stated: “What a powerful film. Though I knew quite a bit about the Nuremberg Trials I didn’t know anything about the role of the psychiatrists tasked with evaluating the Nazi high command.

“Dr Kelley’s evaluation of them as common males that dedicated atrocities quite than some sort of evil being, and his warning that individuals like them are in every single place, are nonetheless poignant to today. Especially proper now. Rami Malek was charming and heartbreaking as Kelley and Russell Crowe was completely slimy and terrifying as Göring.”

The two-hour 28-minute film currently holds an impressive audience rating of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 72% critics score with a critics consensus that reads: “Driven by a commanding efficiency from Russell Crowe, Nuremberg is a handsomely crafted historic drama, however its measured pacing and emotional restraint hold it from totally realising the complexity of its topic.”

Meanwhile Empire Magazine wrote: “Well-paced, expertly carried out, and an pressing name to face as much as fascism, Nuremberg is a robust, sweeping story of the try to deliver an unthinkable evil to justice.”

And East Bay Express said: “A grand, complicated, thought-provoking, clever piece of labor, a mixture battle film/courtroom drama/political beacon, on a topic that almost all of its viewers may suppose is over and executed with.”

Nuremberg is at the moment obtainable to look at within the cinema.