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Six Degrees (2006)
I've seen these actors do better.
I thought this could have been great because of the very talented cast, but it fell flat for me.
You want to like these characters because they are all very sympathetic, even when they are ruining their own lives. But the lengthy monologues are not believable and the dialogue feels over the top.
In a show that is more or less an actors showcase, I think it would have worked better if it was either more obviously satirical, or more sincere. But it was somewhere in between and didn't seem to know exactly what it was doing.
Still, it does have occasionally great moments and you can see what it was trying to do, even if it didn't quite get there.
The Good Nurse (2022)
Quietly terrifying.
What I enjoyed about this was how, similar to the nurse Amy Loughran who worked with Charles Cullen, we as viewers of the film also at first see him as an excellent nurse: compassionate, attentive, and experienced.
So it's not difficult to relate to Amy's growing sense of confusion and alarm when patients of Charlie's keep dying... one after the next. He also begins to reveal himself to be someone who needs more sympathy and attention than most people, but this is subtle enough that we aren't hit over the head with it.
At one point it even looks as if Amy herself is in danger of being given a fatal dose by Charlie, but I think that this is either exaggerated or not true at all, since he is only known to have killed patients.
That extra main-character-in-peril aspect did not really need to be added, because the truth is already outrageous enough without it. And seeing Charlie tell lie upon lie makes it entirely clear how much of a threat he could have been to Amy and her children.
Buried (2021)
Unnecessarily dramatic
The case was unusual and creepy enough, that they didn't have to start by hitting us over the head with OH MY GOD DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN. Like yeah we get what the point is going to be, before it's even ten minutes in. I wish it had more respect for the viewer's intelligence, because given the subject matter, it could have been another Staircase or Brother's Keeper. But unfortunately, it just isn't that good.
Part of the problem is that we barely see any of what actually happened in court before there are voiced-over opinions about it. So this requires very little work, in a way, and doesn't allow us to come to any conclusions of our own before we're already being told what we should be paying attention to.
I might have liked it better if it had taken more time to let us see and hear these people (Eileen, her sisters and her mother) talk more first. But instead they put the memory experts in sort of randomly, closer to the beginning when it just wasn't even really clear why it mattered that much what they had to say.