New York Post January 24, 2022 As nauseating as it is, "Fresh" is very well-worn. If you’ve seen "Get Out" and "Promising Young Woman," which this is basically a...
theplaylist.net September 13, 2022 We know the "good nurse" isn’t someone making difficult judgments that weigh the practicalities of healthcare against an imperative to heal. T...
New York Times October 21, 2022 No show is doing more with less.
A film that lives up to its title. If Fresh stumbles on the way to its own finish line, it’s still a hell of a way to launch a career.
Call it Fifty Shades of Grey with Tabasco sauce.
Daily Telegraph October 27, 2022 Lindholm’s stealthy restraint fits the material like a glove, and both get under your skin.
I never felt a sense of outrage. It was told a little too dispassionately.
Observer October 27, 2022 Ms. Chastain infuses Amy with so much moment-to-moment subtle naturalism that I forgot I was watching an actress at work and really believed I...
Slant Magazine January 23, 2022 Fresh is pitched as a kind of genre corrective, except its tone-deaf cheekiness only results in a feeling of dreary regression.
The Reveal December 19, 2022 A sobering thriller that’s ostensibly about a serial killer, but more concerned about the healthcare system that allowed him to operate for&nb...
With a sharply energetic script from comedy screenwriter Lauryn Kahn, "Fresh" willfully borrows from both comedy and horror in a way that...
The Daily Beast August 24, 2022 The proceedings are dynamic, balancing ferocity and tenderness, minimalism and sophistication with captivating flair.
As fascinating as they can be to watch, neither Eddie Redmayne nor Jessica Chastain ever has what we usually call chemistry with their co-stars… Bu...
Independent March 17, 2022 To frame it in Fresh’s own language, all we get here is a single bite – not the whole steak.
The Australian March 17, 2022 This movie will not be to everyone’s taste. But it is well made, well acted, and has clever, surprising twists towards the end. It marks the debut...
Empire Magazine March 18, 2022 It’s as subtle as a sledgehammer, but Fresh’s audacious storytelling, full-throated performances and accomplished direction make for a ta...
Financial Times March 17, 2022 The whirr of subplots also resembles an over-extended tasting menu. Too many dishes fly by; the evening starts to feel like a long night.
Tartakovsky has long been a distinctive force in TV animation and this is another winner, a spare storytelling experiment that plays like noth...
indieWire October 8, 2019 A piece of elemental storytelling that finds some real emotional depth without either of its protagonists uttering a single word of dialogue.
Expect quiet majesty and ker-smash monstrosity from season 2's climax, and credit voice actor LaPlante with unleashing some of the most soaringly e...
Newsday November 13, 2022 Chastain… gives such a compelling and deeply human performance, so effortlessly charismatic, that you wish she had been the center of a c...
Cave takes a light touch with the gore in this film, but she uses it to pointed affect. Unfortunately, Fresh ditches that ambiguity in favor o...
Feeling like a well-balanced cross between an investigative procedural and ’90s-era chillers, the filmmakers have created a strong throwb...
Detroit News October 26, 2022 There’s no interrogation of Cullen’s psyche or what would lead him to carry out his acts, and as the tension is instead shifted toward...
Globe and Mail March 3, 2022 A balm to any singleton that promises to turn you off online dating and red meat forever.
Vanity Fair March 17, 2022 As a statement of intent from two emerging filmmakers – this is Kahn’s second feature script – Fresh makes a potent impression. It’s...
The Good Nurse feels more like a European art movie than an American political thriller… It’s a shocking story, built around two superb perfor...
indieWire October 18, 2022 There is a punishing side to Primal, but the show hasn’t lost any of the grace and artistry that earned it acclaim for its first round of epis...
Wants to be critical of Batman as a vigilante who uses excessive force and use the Riddler to comment on white male radicalization, which may...
metro.co.uk October 19, 2022 Diffuse and oddly restrained, The Good Nurse just can’t decide what movie it wants to be…luckily, Chastain and Redmayne are so good you won’t care...
[Director Kogonada] finds a tonal balance that’s really difficult between being profound about the nature of existence, but also light a...
The most surprising thing about Fresh is that, given the audacity of the concept, the filmmakers pull it off.
A performance that deserves to get the versatile Redmayne another Oscar nomination; it’s chilling.
Fox 10 Phoenix January 29, 2022 Writing about Fresh without giving away its secrets is pretty much impossible, so let’s leave it at this: See it. Have fun. And maybe don&rsq...
New York Times October 27, 2022 "The Good Nurse" offers no assurances that its danger is safely locked away. In the judgment of the film, Cullen is just a side effect of an i...
indieWire September 12, 2022 Wilson-Cairns zeros in on Amy’s life as the emotional center of the story… These choices provide emotional ballast for what’s to come, and push Cha...
RogerEbert.com September 12, 2022 A two-hour version of a remarkably thin screenplay, one that often mistakes slow for subtle.
New York Times March 3, 2022 Fresh wants to do and say everything.
Like a lot of movies these days, Fresh feels like it was conceived through its themes first and then written to bolster those ideas, rather th...
Detroit News March 3, 2022 "Fresh" is a reminder to everyone fed up with the horrors of modern dating that things could be much, much worse.
Vanity Fair October 18, 2022 If audience demand for serial killer reenactments continues apace, The Good Nurse at least presents a careful, considerate method to approachi...
Boston Globe October 27, 2022 "The Good Nurse" is at its best as a medical police procedural. It helps that Noah Emmerich and Nnamdi Asomugha, playing the cops, give solid...
Slant Magazine October 4, 2019 The show’s violence is a reflection of its characters' existence, a cycle from which there’s no escape.
A methodical and smartly wrought psychological thriller…
Variety September 12, 2022 "The Good Nurse" ultimately makes a sophisticated impression as a moving, deeply political human interest story, elevated by Jody Lee Lipes’ a...
Times (UK) October 17, 2022 The police investigation sequences, admittedly, are a bit clunky and yet that’s probably because the screenplay, by Krysty Wilson-Cairns, is a...
Mimi Cave knows how to captivate and how to repulse, usually at the same time. Fresh is a breakneck emotional rollercoaster, and like many rol...
ReelViews October 27, 2022 The Good Nurse is what it appears to be: yet another of those true crime movies that Netflix churns out with regularity.
Associated Press October 26, 2022 In focusing the story on this "good nurse,” director Tobias Lindholm and screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns… make a powerful argument for telli...
indieWire January 24, 2022 Fresh is sleek and nimble, a worthy new entry into the feminist revenge thriller genre.
RogerEbert.com January 25, 2022 [Fresh] benefits immensely from the twisted chemistry of its leads, Cave’s confidence behind the camera, and the spiky script devised by Laur...
Fresh doesn’t push the body horror as far as it could, and works better as an empowerment fable than as an actual thriller. But maybe that’s for th...
Rolling Stone October 8, 2019 It’s storytelling at its most basic, sound and images moving faster than a speeding velociraptor and brimming with soulfulness.
Abu-Assad’s tautly plotted shout-out against a patriarchal way of being that crushes the souls of women couldn’t be more relevant.
Cave has a smart, stylish way of storytelling that somehow makes a film built on bone saws and grotesqueries feel almost breezy.
Little White Lies January 23, 2022 Cave certainly has an eye for aesthetics, but Fresh attempts to find a middle ground between relationship satire and gross-out horror, becomin...
RogerEbert.com March 5, 2022 The irresistibility of Fresh lies in the fact that it doesnt take itself too seriously – all things considered, the film manages to stay light...
TheWrap September 12, 2022 At its best, "The Good Nurse" is grim and procedural, reminiscent, perhaps, of "Spotlight" or "The Insider,” movies that veer away from the depicti...
Los Angeles Times October 25, 2022 Just because evil is banal doesn’t mean a movie has to be.
Financial Times October 27, 2022 The movie doesn’t insult our intelligence or cheapen the gravity by dragging out the question of his guilt. But that leaves dramatic space to fill.
Irish Times March 18, 2022 Comically twisting the source genre away from the concept of the Final Girl, Fresh celebrates female camaraderie, resourcefulness, and good humour...
Hollywood Reporter September 12, 2022 A gripping but refreshingly unmanipulative true-crime tragedy.
Washington Post October 19, 2022 The biggest mystery that hangs over "Nurse"… is the question of why all these power players thought something this slight, this weightless, this fo...
Slant Magazine September 16, 2022 For a while, the work on the part of the performers is nuanced enough to distract us from the film’s implausibilities.
When Nikki and Jason have trouble conceiving a child and decide to adopt, they open up a whole new can of challenges.
The Guardian October 17, 2022 Combines compassion and empathy with a sickening swell of almost unbearable tension.
Autostraddle March 10, 2022 Writer Lauryn Kahn and director Mimi Cave have constructed a playful and captivating horror story bolstered by solid performances that does, a...
Every bit as textured and knotty as Lindholm’s previous work.
The Daily Beast November 8, 2022 A thriller that—for better and, too often, for worse—plays like a stifled scream.
Splatter movie, satire and slapstick come together and at last you can laugh. How sweet it is.
The Guardian January 21, 2022 For those who like their dating movies with a bit of gristle, Fresh is a perfect match.
Empire Magazine October 26, 2022 A tense true crime thriller that avoids schlock horror tropes in favour of a welcome focus on the environment that allowed one of America’s wo...
Chicago Reader March 8, 2022 About 30 minutes into the film, the opening credits finally roll, and we’re off, taking a morbidly comedic turn towards the truly un...
The Guardian October 20, 2022 A nifty procedural thriller…
Salon.com October 26, 2022 Lindholm takes what could easily have been a TV movie of the week thriller and elevates it to an involving drama by keeping the danger spiky.
Watch this documentary especially if all you know of Louis Armstrong is "What a Wonderful World." You can catch up with the rest of the groove...
The Atlantic January 28, 2022 The final act comes with perhaps too many surprises on the menu, but the film is so much fun that I didn’t mind the extra courses.
The Guardian September 12, 2022 I’d argue we could have been given slightly more, especially in the telling of Cullen’s crimes and past, but The Good Nurse remains a good, if...
Bloody Disgusting January 22, 2022 This charming meet-cute whets your appetite with a delectable first course of allegory, style, and great characters. But it leaves you unsatia...
TV Guide October 26, 2022 This pass-the-buck conspiracy, similar to the crimes exposed in the film Spotlight, really angers up the blood… Chastain is in typically fine form...
Chicago Sun-Times October 20, 2022 Redmayne infuses Charlie with a kind of Norman Bates-like creepiness; he’s polite and quiet and only slightly disturbing until he explodes int...
