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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreKudos to Kino Lorber for letting people see it for free at a time when not everyone is in a position to sing to or applaud the health care professionals risking their own health to save us from a pandemic.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonIn watching The American Nurse, I saw myself not so much in the nurses but in their patients. It occurs to me the nurses are always there, from our birth to death and in between. That in the current pandemic they would need to beg for personal protective equipment is on us as a society. They are our better angels.
- 70Village VoiceHeather BaysaVillage VoiceHeather BaysaWatching these nurses confront our mortality in all its bloody, pussy, festering, and thoroughly unglamorous forms stirs new appreciation for the profession.
- 70The New York TimesAnita GatesThe New York TimesAnita GatesIf the film is workmanlike at times, it is also elegantly cleareyed.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA compassionate and psychologically revealing doc.