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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Thursday 27 OcTOber 2022
Chastain is an everyday superhero in ‘Good Nurse’

By JOCELYN NOVECK cording to Amy’s supervi-
AP National Writer sor. Seemingly generous
Movie titles are always im- and hard-working, he im-
portant, but there’s special mediately becomes friends
significance to the title of with Amy, meeting and
“The Good Nurse,” based playing with her kids, and
on the horrific serial killings vowing to help conceal her
of dozens and possibly hun- condition even sneaking
dreds of patients by a night meds from the hospital’s
nurse who injected fatal automatic dispensing sys-
drugs into IV bags. tem (he’s identified a way
Of course, real-life con- to cancel an order but still
victed killer Charles Cul- get the drugs). Meanwhile,
len, potentially one of the Amy’s elderly patient dies,
most prolific serial killers of inexplicably. Her husband
all time, is not the “good is gutted. And now, police
nurse” in the title, even in start asking questions.
an ironic sense. It is, rather, Two detectives have sus-
fellow nurse Amy Loughren picions right away. These
played by a luminous, ef- dogged investigators,
fortlessly empathetic Jes- played by Nnamdi Asomu-
sica Chastain who first be- This image released by Netflix shows Jessica Chastain in a scene from “The Good Nurse.” gha and Noah Emmerich
friended Cullen, then sus- Associated Press (the latter latching onto
pected him, then helped the culprit far earlier than
bring him down. single working mom with patient “codes,” and staff night, Amy breaks the rules did his hapless FBI agent
In bravely securing the heart trouble, becomes an rush unsuccessfully to save on no guests and brings in “The Americans”) are
evidence police needed, everyday superhero. him. Quietly watching is him a pillow and blanket. stonewalled by the hospi-
Loughren surely saved There’s a simple moviemak- Cullen, standing against a A single mom, Amy works tal, which is run by sleazy
countless lives, because ing lesson here, too, which wall. Redmayne plays Cul- nights so she can be with corporate types out to
the hospitals where Cullen is that when you have a len as someone so unre- her kids in the daytime. save their for-profit institu-
worked, the film argues, cast as talented as this, markable, he can melt into She can barely pay the tion over protecting lives.
lacked the moral courage led by Chastain and Ed- that wall. Seemingly taking babysitter, let alone the Kim Dickens is chilling as a

to act on their suspicions die Redmayne (going way to heart a description in private doctor treating her former nurse turned admin-
firing Cullen for minor of- darker than usual), it be- Graeber’s book of “a sad heart condition, which will istrator who shills for her hos-
fenses and essentially leav- comes less important if the Mr. Rogers type,” he even require surgery. She can’t pital.
ing him to keep killing (he structure seems to veer for- wears a gray cardigan. get care in the hospital Chastain’s best scenes
worked at nine hospitals.) mulaic. There are, alas, mo- Lacking definable person- because they’d fire her come toward the end
In focusing the story on this ments where “The Good ality, he is a true cipher. if they knew. And she still when she is seized with fear,
“good nurse,” director To- Nurse” has a too-familiar (Redmayne also becomes needs several more months yet determined to stop her
bias Lindholm and screen- TV police procedural feel, yet another top British actor to qualify for health insur- friend even when it means
writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, when you know just what’s to display an uncanny facil- ance.. (The movie makes confronting him boldly at
working from Charles Grae- going to happen next and ity with American accents.) a good argument for how close range as he begins
ber’s book, make a power- see the plot machinery Now we jump to 2003, and undervalued nurses are in to unravel. Redmayne has
ful argument for telling such moving. But the acting, es- a New Jersey hospital. this country, not to mention the task of showing us what
stories not via the killers pecially Chastain’s never- Amy, the night nurse, is ex- the absurd notion that this truly mundane evil looks
themselves psychoanalyz- a-false-moment portrayal, hausted and overworked, nurse who saves lives lacks like. Except for one mo-
ing and perhaps aggran- triumphs over all that. but obviously devoted to her own health insurance.) ment that feels jarring for its
dizing them but via those We begin with a brief pro- patients. When an elderly Enter Cullen, who arrives on suddenness, he craftily dis-
who bravely confronted logue in 1999, at a Pennsyl- patient’s husband balks at the night shift with “great plays a veneer starting to
them. And so Loughren, a vania hospital. Suddenly a leaving his wife alone over- recommendations,” ac- crack.q

Nantz to call last Final Four in ‘23, Eagle

to take over

NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Nantz will step away from calling the NCAA Men’s Basketball
Tournament after next year and will be succeeded by Ian Eagle.
CBS Sports confirmed the move on Monday night. It was first reported by the New York
Post.
Nantz has been a part of the CBS coverage of the tournament since 1986. He was the
studio host for five years before calling his first Final Four in 1991.
Next year’s Final Four will take place in Houston, 40 years after the University of Houston’s
run to the national championship game before it was upset by North Carolina State.
Nantz attended the University of Houston and hosted coach Guy Lewis’ television show.
The 63-year old Nantz will remain the lead voice of the network’s NFL coverage, along
with leading its golf team. CBS has The Masters and PGA Championship.
Eagle has been with CBS since 1998. Besides calling the tournament, he is part of the
Announcer Jim Nantz looks on after NFL Super Bowl 53, Feb. 3, network’s No. 2 NFL team. The 53-year-old Eagle is also part of Turner’s NBA coverage
2019, in Atlanta. and has called Brooklyn Nets games since 1995.q
Associated Press