'Whereas Tobias Lindolm’s prior 'Another Round' brimmed with exuberant life, TheGoodNurse is stately, economical and mechanical, going through its true-crime motions with maximum polish but minimal excitement.' It's a SKIP. Read beastobsessed's review:
The Good Nurse
opens in 1996 Pennsylvania with Charles staring blankly at a flatlining patient, Lindholm’s camera zooming in to gaze into the hospital nurse’s passive eyes. That stare, as well as a slightly hunched posture in which his arms barely swing as he walks, imply that something is terribly wrong with Charles.
Red flags appear when detectives Danny Baldwin and Tim Braun are called to the hospital by a risk officer who wants them to look into the aforementioned patient’s unexpected demise, which happened when both Amy and Charles weren’t on duty. What’s strange isn’t that the administration is concerned about this death but that they’ve already conducted a seven-month internal investigation into the matter and won’t turn it over to the cops.
As a tireless professional trying to do right by herself and her kids, Chastain is magnetic enough to keep one invested in Amy’s personal and Charles-related plights, even aseventually opts to take a cheesy route by having her temporarily land in his medical care—a wannabe-anxious twist that, like everything else about the film, is handled with a somber gravity that smothers tension. Chastain radiates warmth and kindness.