Night Always Comes

Name: Night Always Comes
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 15, 2025
Rating: 60

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 15, 2025 | R

Summary: Lynette (Vanessa Kirby), a flawed, yet determined, anti-heroine embarks on a dangerous, one-night odyssey through Portland’s criminal underbelly in a desperate attempt to gather enough cash to keep her family from eviction. Based on the best-selling novel by Willy Vlautin.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 15, 2025

It’s beautifully constructed and executed, with a lead character who reveals new biographical and emotional layers to us with each new scene, and a backup cast stocked with small-scale underworld types. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Aug 14, 2025

Night Always Comes isn’t an especially ambitious movie, but it’s simple where it needs to be simple, and it’s complex when complexity is called for. Read full review

John Anderson

Aug 14, 2025

There are a few speedbumps of illogic along the gnarled route of Night Always Comes, but they can’t negate the pace of the storytelling, Mr. García’s gymnastic shooting, or the sense of there being no bottom to the well of darkness explored by Mr. Caron. Read full review

David Rooney

Aug 14, 2025

Set over the course of a single harrowing night and driven by a performance from Vanessa Kirby bristling with raw nervous energy, hunger and searing inner conflict, Netflix’s Night Always Comes is more compelling than the average original streaming movie even if it could use an extra shot of emotional power. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Aug 14, 2025

It’s a compelling tale of increasingly hazardous desperation, even if the star and her fellow-Brit director Benjamin Caron (oth veterans of royalty drama series “The Crown) aren’t necessarily an ideal fit for this very American, down-and-out milieu. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Aug 14, 2025

Handsomely made but tediously plotted, Kirby is more than deserving of this kind of meaty, she’s-in-every-frame role, but Night Always Comes sunsets long before we get there. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 18, 2025

Breathless, ticking-clock pacing would have stripped the narrative of the many pauses where we’re allowed to think “Oh come ON” before the next stock character makes a bow, the next blow lands or next crooked angle presents itself. Read full review

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