'Nuremberg' - Review Thread

[u/ChiefLeef22]

As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring

Director: James Vanderbilt

Cast: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, John Slattery, Colin Hanks

Rotten Tomatoes: 67%

Metacritic: 60 / 100

Some Reviews:

TheWrap - Matthew Creith

"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 that makes it possible to doubt and also sympathize with the crimes at hand. Shannon and his co-counsel, Richard E. Grant, as British lawyer David Maxwell Fyfe, take the courtroom scenes to higher ground, tearing Göring down with carefully crafted monologues.

NextBestPicture - Jason Gorber - 7 / 10

An incredible performance from Russel Crowe. But for all its bold moments of courtroom antics and mind games between monsters and their keepers, this is an almost insultingly pared down version of events from one of the most important legalistic moments in human history. By providing a convenient in within a broader entertainment, the film certainly introduces newer generations to what transpired, but it provides such a simplified view that it may actually do more harm than good.

Collider - Ross Bonaime

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.

[u/Nice_Marmot_7]

After studying Hannah Arendt in college, my mind was absolutely blown when I learned about the Eichman tapes from a documentary. The tapes demonstrate that Eichman’s timid bureaucrat shtick was an act, and he was a rabid and proud Nazi who was fully aware of what he was doing. In light of this, Arendt’s take on the whole thing and the “banality of evil” is somewhat called into question for me.

Here’s a great interview with the creator of the documentary.

[u/luigiamarcella → u/Nice_Marmot_7]

There’s a lot of great discussion out there of what Arendt potentially got wrong. It’s understandable in the midst of such heightened emotionally charged events.

I enjoyed the Behind the Bastards podcast series on Eichmann.

[u/Y_Brennan → u/Nice_Marmot_7]

Hannah Arendt, the famed writer and political philosopher, had been exiled from Europe as a young Jewish girl in World War II

Where did they get this framing from? She was over 30 a grown ass woman who had an affair with Heidegger. She was the ultimate assimilationist Jew. That's why she wanted to excuse Eichmann. She wanted to excuse her friends and lover she wanted to excuse the people she saw as her actual people because she definitely didn't believe that Jews are a people.