--- title: The Good Nurse Is True Crime Dressed Up with a Classy Sheen description: The Good Nurse is tense, all right, sometimes to the reaches of unpleasantness, but mostly just to the point of boredom canonical: https://time.com/6225670/the-good-nurse-review/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-10-27T18:16:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:53:48.191Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: The Good Nurse's True Crime Roots Are Painfully Visible og:description: The Good Nurse is tense, all right, sometimes to the reaches of unpleasantness, but mostly just to the point of boredom og:url: https://time.com/6225670/the-good-nurse-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9f065b2203b4216/698a36d0b21a9c434d5068e8/good-nurse-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: good-nurse-3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Good Nurse's True Crime Roots Are Painfully Visible twitter:description: The Good Nurse is tense, all right, sometimes to the reaches of unpleasantness, but mostly just to the point of boredom twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9f065b2203b4216/698a36d0b21a9c434d5068e8/good-nurse-3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _The Good Nurse_ Is a True-Crime Story Dressed Up with a Classy Sheen > Sponsored content. 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That’s the dramatic gamble of _The Good Nurse,_ based on the story of Charles Cullen, currently serving multiple life sentences for murdering at least 29 patients across New Jersey and Pennsylvania between 1988 and 2003\. [Eddie Redmayne](https://time.com/5851989/emma-watson-transgender-jk-rowling/) plays Cullen: in the first scene, he stands back and watches blankly as doctors tend to a patient who’s flatlined. Bad eggs don’t come much worse than this. Later, having jumped to another hospital, he befriends fellow nurse Amy Loughren ([Jessica Chastain](https://time.com/5118504/jessica-chastain-octavia-spencer-wage-gap/)), a single mom with two small kids and a heart condition that will require surgery, if it doesn’t kill her first. And having started her job only recently, she’s still a few months away from getting health insurance. She finds an ally in Charles, who radiates false kindness as only a truly insidious serial killer can.  Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren in 'The Good Nurse' JoJo Whilden—Netflix Directed by Tobias Lindholm (whose credits include the 2012 pirate drama _A Highjacking_) and adapted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns from Charles Graeber’s book, _The Good Nurse_ is tense, all right, sometimes to the reaches of unpleasantness, but mostly just to the point of boredom. Though it works hard to make us believe it’s really a [social statement about hospitals’ lack of scruples](https://time.com/6080714/dr-death-true-story/)—pay close attention to that hospital risk manager, played by Kim Dickens, who takes great pains to cover up deaths that happen on her watch—its garden-variety [true-crime roots](https://time.com/6214152/new-york-daily-news-history-tabloid/) are painfully visible. People enjoy true crime for lots of reasons, but we could all stand to be a little more honest about the reality that these stories stem from [real-life human suffering](https://time.com/6126862/landscapers-true-story/). _The Good Nurse_ has a classy, polished luster—it virtually sighs “prestige,” without being so gauche as to spell it out. But in the end, it’s still just a serial-killer procedural, played out for our delectation. **Read more:** [_The 16 Best True Crime Books of All Time_](https://time.com/5355643/best-true-crime-books-of-all-time/) Redmayne is fine as bad nurse Charles, until he starts twitching and overemoting in the finale—the kind of overkill that’s more a director’s fault than an actor’s. Chastain is the movie’s saving grace: she’s not playing a pushover but a woman who desperately needs kindness and accepts it when it’s offered, even if it’s fraudulent. She sees Charles as a human being, which means she feels a sharp sense of loss when she discovers the truth about him. Chastain renders every emotional shift in muted tones. 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