'The Good Nurse' Review: It's Not A Good Movie

Newsy's Daniel Feingold shares a review of "The Good Nurse."

Congratulations may be in order for Eddie Redmayne, who, in "The Good Nurse," becomes the first actor on record to deliver the vast majority of a feature-length performance while asleep. The rest of his performance is his usual swing-for-the-fences, capital-A Acting that's earned him plaudits from awards voters and mockery from movie fans. They're both probably deserved.  

That's not very kind, so I'll balance it out by stating the obvious: Co-star Jessica Chastain, the eponymous good nurse, is always great even in movies that don't totally work. (In fact, she won an Oscar this year for her transformative performance in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye.") In "The Good Nurse," she again portrays a real person — though this time the true story is horrific. She's Amy Loughren, a nurse and single mother who befriends a new coworker, Charles Cullen (Redmayne). He, too, appears to be a good nurse, but he's actually a serial killer who's bouncing from hospital to hospital after his patients mysteriously keep dying. No administrators do anything about it aside from quietly firing him, because it'd reflect poorly on their hospital.   

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