Movie review
October 19, 2022 · 121 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
True-crime thriller based on real events in which ICU nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain) suspects her new colleague Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) of causing mysterious patient deaths and risks her own health and job to help police investigate. The story centers on their workplace friendship, the killings, and the obstacles Amy faces in a New Jersey hospital around 2003. The narrative repeatedly highlights how the for-profit healthcare system enabled the crimes through bureaucratic cover-ups, liability fears, and profit priorities over patient safety.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Good Nurse.
Woke representation / casting
Main roles cast to match real-life white figures; no audience-visible forced diversity or identity signaling.
Woke political dialogue
Dialogue underscores hospital self-protection and profit motives blocking accountability.
Identity-driven story themes
Story engine is factual thriller about a serial killer and whistleblower; no identity politics or representation arcs.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Recurring, noticeable emphasis frames for-profit U.S. healthcare as a flawed system enabling deaths via cover-ups and bureaucracy.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No backlash claiming woke, activist, or identity-political messaging.
Creator track record context
No relevant prior work cited.
Production
