The Good Nurse (2022) poster
2022 · drama · crime · mystery · slasher

The Good Nurse

Directed by Tobias Lindholm2h 1m2022
ElsewhereIMDb6.887kRT74%Metacritic65
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme drama / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Our read · The Good Nurse (2022) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · crime · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a tense fact-based hospital investigation with great acting.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 28attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightMedical true-crime anxiety will keep you awake tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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