Late Shift

Name: Late Shift
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: March 20, 2026
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 69

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Music Box Films | Release Date: March 20, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she works as a nurse on the overnight shift. With one colleague out sick and no replacement on deck, just two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen patients. The doctors to whom the nursesWith a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Benesch) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she works as a nurse on the overnight shift. With one colleague out sick and no replacement on deck, just two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen patients. The doctors to whom the nurses are supposed to defer are nowhere to be found. Floria juggles endless tasks: administering medication, updating charts, soothing patients, answering phones, and managing complaints. Surrounded by fluorescent lights, the steady beeping of monitors, and echoing footsteps, Floria struggles to fight off exhaustion and maintain her professional demeanor. Every second counts, and every interruption could mean the difference between life and death.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Next Best Picture Jack Walters

Feb 24, 2026

Many audiences may shy away from projects like “Late Shift” because its realism is too unsettling, but that’s exactly why it’s necessary in the first place. Read full review

The Film Verdict Deborah Young

Feb 24, 2026

The clever and effective Late Shift depicts nursing as a permanent emergency that finds its equivalent in a breathless, anxious rhythm designed to jangle the staunchest nerves. For audiences who are into job-horror with a stranglehold, it qualifies as one of the most engrossing films in the festival. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Feb 24, 2026

Night Shift does not go for full-on social realism. One wealthy patient comes across as something of a cliche. The details of Floria’s eventual meltdown would be more at home in a medical soap than in a film that, elsewhere, strives for rigorous representation of working practices. But Benesch carries us compellingly through those narrative convulsions to an ending that makes an epic of the everyday. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

Mar 23, 2026

Late Shift never loses grasp of its compassion for its lead, but does neglect coloring in the context. Left wanting more, Volpe’s film touches the heart but doesn’t satisfy the appetite for a more comprehensive picture. Read full review

Jarrod Jones

Mar 18, 2026

Even with all these spinning plates, Volpe struggles with maintaining tension despite Benesch’s knack for immediacy and impeccable dramatic timing. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Mar 20, 2026

Benesch’s beautifully controlled performance — a balancing act of anxious, fidgety physicality and poker-faced concentration — shows us the difficulty of honoring each patient’s humanity when workplace conditions demand efficiency over empathy. Still, this message runs thin as the story progresses, a bit too evenly, through its various cases, giving the film a languid, repetitious quality. Read full review

William Repass

Mar 12, 2026

For all its empathy, Late Shift upholds the dubious virtue of self-sacrifice that underpins the Protestant work ethic. Read full review

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