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Review: Jessica Chastain is good as 'The Good Nurse,' but Eddie Redmayne is bad as the bad nurse

From left, Devyn McDowell as Maya Loughren, Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren and Alix West Lefler as Alex Loughren in "The Good Nurse."

In the opening shot of "The Good Nurse," a slow, steady, unilluminating drip of a medical mystery, a serial killer in scrubs named Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) watches his victim die. The patient has gone into convulsions, and Charles, the nurse who sounded the alarm, stands back as the doctors swoop in and try in vain to save the day. In a perhaps inadvertently telling gesture, the camera eases the suffering, flatlining patient out of the frame and creeps slowly toward Charles, whose inscrutable expression is meant to chill you to the bone. It's as if the murderous satisfaction he feels — and the anxious concern he's

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