This review originally ran Sept. 11, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
A movie with a title like “The Good Nurse” has a lot to live up to, for one: that nurse better be good. Lucky for “The Good Nurse” and its audience, Jessica Chastain shines in a post-Oscar nail-biter as an RN investigating a string of mysterious deaths at her hospital, possibly caused by her new co-worker.
Tobias Lindholm’s “The Good Nurse” is based on a book of the same title about the serial killer Charles (or Charlie, as he prefers) Cullen, an ICU nurse who would give his patients lethal doses of insulin or digoxin while they were hospitalized.