Night Comes On
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: August 3, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The PlaylistKyle KohnerAug 4, 2018
Aside from its phenomenal script and performances, Night Comes On delights with stunning visuals. Read full review
91
The Film StageJared MobarakAug 1, 2018
The whole therefore hinges upon Fishback’s performance and she assuredly carries it upon her shoulders. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAug 2, 2018
Like its determined heroine, Night Comes On burns with a smoldering fire, a heat that is no less intense, no less effective, for remaining largely beneath the surface. Read full review
90
VarietyGuy Lodge
Night Comes On is, true to its title, blanketed in a dim, crepuscular state of waiting. Fishback, her film career unfurling clearly before her from scene to scene, blazes a way out of it. Read full review
83
IndieWireKate ErblandAug 2, 2018
It’s a tough story, but told through a decidedly female gaze, Night Comes On blossoms into something beautiful. Read full review
80
Film ThreatNorman GidneyAug 26, 2018
Spiro has produced a beautiful film on loss, and the cycles of violence that all too many are understandably pulled into, yet she still manages to give us a glimmer of hope in a world of desperation. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 6, 2018
Though slow, it’s intense, and you’re hooked from its first scene — Angel’s final meeting with the detention authorities — to its last, wrenching image. Spiro is a real filmmaker. Read full review
80
The New York TimesTeo BugbeeAug 2, 2018
The actress Jordana Spiro directed Night Comes On and wrote the script with Angelica Nwandu, a spoken-word poet and creator of the incisive gossip website The Shade Room. Ms. Nwandu is also a former client of the foster care system. The result of their partnership is a film that balances penetrating clarity with compassion. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney
Restrained, affecting and tenderly observed with a distinctly female gaze, the film takes some time to locate its center as an intimate drama of resilient sisterhood. But the delicacy of the bond etched between Fishback's Angel and her 10-year-old sibling, played by captivating discovery Tatum Marilyn Hall, keeps you hooked into this melancholy but hopeful story of fractured family dynamics. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenAug 26, 2018
This is a movie that’s honest about night coming on, but it also reminds us of the small things that will get you through that night, until the morning dawns. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 7, 2018
The movie never entirely convinces us that its heroine has the capacity to kill, although her pain and loss are conveyed with skill by Fishback. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 4, 2018
Spiro has still gotten a striking, gritty and touching debut feature out of this cast, a movie that may lack much in the way of surprises but makes up for it with toughness, empathy and realism. Read full review
75
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonAug 1, 2018
Night Comes On isn’t a docudrama, but it’s informed enough to give us a sense of the obstacles facing young women like Angel. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 1, 2018
Fishback and Hall move confidently between the obvious ironies and foreshadowings of Spiro’s kitchen sink (as in, “everything but the ______”) realism.
60
Village VoiceCraig D. LindseyAug 1, 2018
All through the film, you pray it doesn’t go down the bleak routes that films like this usually go — and, most of the time, it does. Night Comes On is an assured first shot from Spiro but, damn, I couldn’t wait for this fucking thing to be over. Read full review
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