Gripping

Rating: 7/10 (24 January 1999)

Judgment at Nuremberg has an intense emotional energy, which plays well against the inherently philosophical nature of the piece. Performances are uniformly excellent, especially among the supporting cast, and Schell certainly deserved his Oscar.
My major qualm with Judgment is the Spencer Tracy character. Just as in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Tracy is an almost unbearably self-righteous fellow who says things the rest of the movie illustrates better and more cinematically; he makes the moral very heavy-handed. All in all, though, a beautifully done working of a superb screenplay.