carmo-5 Review of The Good Nurse

The Good Nurse (2022)

Hospitals being careless for investigating causa mortis of patients

[8/10 · 13 March 2023]

The American film The Good Nurse (2022) available on Netflix is based on a real case of murders that took place in the USA over a period of 16 years, from 1988 to 2003. The film focuses on the discovery and identification of the modus operandi of a serial killer, Charles Cullen, who worked as a nurse in a considerable number of hospitals in New Jersey (USA) for 16 years and who murdered a high number of patients. In the hospitals where he worked, countless deaths occurred without a plausible medical justification being identified as the cause of death and, apparently, the hospitals did not invest much for discovering the problem that led the patient to death. It is a very good film that, despite being almost three hours long, is not tiring and keeps your attention throughout the whole time. It has a competent direction and an excellent and convincing cast: Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Kim Dickens, Nnamdi Asomugha, Noah Emmerich.