While Netflix offered its Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a ten-part mini-series on, perhaps, America’s most notorious serial killer, the same company also brought to its streaming service, as well as to the big screen, a feature-length film on a lesser-known, albeit more prolific serial killer in Tobias Lindholm’s The Good Nurse. This review will undoubtedly contain spoilers. If you have yet to see The Good Nurse, I recommend a viewing, though I’ll caution that it operates more slowly than you both wish and expect. I am uncertain if I would have invested in The Good Nurse had I watched it at home rather than at the theater. This is all to say that it deserves the attention the director, the writers, and the actors put into it.’
Category Archives: Noah Emmerich
Little Children (2006)
Little Children is a somewhat misleading title for a movie that has little to do with children or anyone physically small. While a couple of kids appear in this movie, they are nondescript and serve more as props than anything else. The leads are all middle-aged adults, though their undisciplined, erratic behavior suggests otherwise. The protagonists act as entitled brats, while the antagonists are fundamentally flawed. It becomes clear we are on a collision course between everyone involved in a film set in present-day New England, but it could just as well be any town in America.