Film Review – Nuremberg

The Nuremberg Trials have been explored in many forms of media, with film and television productions often working to extract the dramatic intensity of the legal event. Director Stanley Kramer explored the tension in 1961’s “Judgment At Nuremberg,” and a 2000 miniseries starring Alec Baldwin, Christopher Plummer, and Brian Cox aimed to add its own take on the courtroom showdown. And now writer/director James Vanderbilt (who previously helmed the ridiculous 2015 picture, “Truth”) hopes to add his interpretation to the list, adapting Jack El-Hai’s book, “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist,” for a big screen examination of unusual relationships and the confrontation of evil. “Nuremberg” doesn’t color outside the lines, remaining dedicated to traditional dramatic entanglements and stern performances, and Vanderbilt is driven to draw parallels to today’s world of simmering malevolence, creating an intermittently engrossing study of psychology involved in an ambitious legal challenge. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com