If you happened to have been sucked into Danish filmmaker Tobias Lindholm’s excellent 2020 miniseries “The Investigation” (available on HBO Max), you may have appreciated the patience and steady hand he uses to tell his story.
Those attributes are on display again in “The Good Nurse,” Lindholm’s English language debut, which is already in select theaters and debuts on Netflix this week.
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