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11/07/07
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
89 %
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 16
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: True story dealing with the Nazi war crimes trials of several members of the German judiciary. Here the focus is on two particular individuals, the judge (Spencer Tracey) who must render a final opinion and one particular defendant (Burt... [More]
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Reviews for Judgment at Nuremberg
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Watchable enough on its own terms, but insufferably glib next to something like Shoah.
11/07/07
Top Critic A tpical Stanley Kramer's film: Serious (even pompous) and humanist, but essentially middlebrow, courtroom drama that while well-acted is too verbose and fearful of taking sides in the controversy over who's to blame for the Nazi atrocities.
09/26/07
There are no surprises in the direction, and Abby Mann's screenplay plays the expected tunes, but there's enough conviction on display to reward a patient spectator.
06/24/06
Top Critic A rare cinematic exploration of the messy, difficult aftermath of evaluating culpability, not only for the Nazi masterminds, but also for innumerable officials and functionaries…
02/11/06
It's the kind of honorable message film that tends to get Oscar nominations, and indeed, Judgement at Nuremberg received 13 nods in 1961, winning two, including Best Actor for Maxmillian Schell.
06/06/05
An eloquent snapshot of the way that the ground was shifting--in both the Nuremberg of 1948 and the Tinsel Town of 1961.
01/06/05
In the grand tradition of courtroom dramas, Nuremberg has the distinction of being probably the most "important" of them all - even if it's not the most blatantly entertaining
08/14/04
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