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Hospitals can be scary places. Nobody is there for fun times; everyone is scared, unhappy, sick or in pain. Or some combination. We depend on the hospital staff to keep us together. We rely on the doctors, of course, to diagnose and treat, but we rely especially on the nursing staff, who spend all of their time with patients. The people who work diligently to make sure we are comfortable and cared for until we can go home. They administer our medications, track our bowel movements, clean up our messes, and are there until the bitter end. These people work tirelessly and often go underappreciated, but their role is no less important. Our lives are in their hands, after all.

Martin Kraut’s La Dosis looks at a pair of these caretakers and the extremes to which they will go in service of their work. What happens when a nurse...

Samuel Goldwyn Films To Release Thriller LA Dosis On June 11, 2021** Official Selection – 2020 Rotterdam International Film Festival ** ** Official Selection – 2020 Fantasia International Film Festival** ** Official Selection – 2021 BFI Flare Film Festival ** LA Dosis, the sharp slow-burn thriller from distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films, will be released on-demand and …

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The line between mercy killing and plain old murder is uncomfortably drawn in Argentine “La Dosis.” Writer-director Martin Kraut’s debut feature sets up an intriguing cat-and-mouse conflict between one male hospital nurse whose early-terminus interventions are of the compassionate kind, while a new staffer’s seem motivated by pure malice.

Not quite as suspenseful or twisty as that premise might lead one to expect, this ends up falling somewhere between thriller and character-study terrain. Nonetheless, it occupies that not-entirely-satisfying middle ground capably enough to keep viewers interested, and to suggest its maker has the chops for less-modestly-scaled future projects. Following a run on the genre festival circuit, Goldwyn is releasing directly to U.S. VOD and digital platforms on June 11.

Outwardly, Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is something of a sad sack: A portly middle-aged loner without apparent friends or family, working a singularly grim night-shift job. He can’t even escape via sleep,...