James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg delivers a haunting courtroom drama that probes the minds behind humanity’s darkest chapter. Anchored by a towering Russell Crowe performance and a chilling moral tug-of-war, the film is long, heavy, and often brilliant — even when it drags its feet. PLOT & SETUP Directed by James Vanderbilt , Nuremberg adapts Jack El-Hai’s 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist , chronicling psychiatrist Douglas Kelley’s (Rami Malek) psychological evaluatio