The Good Nurse
2022
****
Director: Tobias Lindholm
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Nnamdi Asomugha, Kim Dickens, Noah Emmerich, Malik Yoba, Maria Dizzia
Amy is a single mother with a heart condition who works as an ICU nurse at a New Jersey hospital. When one of her patients unexpectedly dies, the detectives on the case set their sights on her new colleague, Charles. This harrowing real-life story is based on The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber. The screenplay by Krysty Wilson-Cairns distills this scenario into a compelling no-nonsense thriller, which manages to avoid the usual genre tropes. Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne both give stellar performances.
