Night Always Comes (2025) - Review
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Directed by: Benjamin Caron
Written by: Sarah Conradt
Starring: Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagen, Stephen James, Randall Park, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly, Eli Roth
Runtime: 108 min
Synopsis: Lynette risks everything to secure the house that represents a future for her family. On a dangerous odyssey through a single night, she is forced to confront her dark past in order to finally break free.
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Editor's Note: Original review was written for Movies We Texted About. Full article can be found below.
REVIEW SUMMARY
Night Always Comes falls short of its ambition. There's a powerful story here - the moral erosion provoked by systems that always fail the same people - but the film never finds the most impactful way to tell it. Atmosphere and performances elevate the material, with Kirby in particular carrying the story's weight with a commitment that deserved a sharper script. Yet between redundancy, lack of subtlety, and indecision between bitter satire and taut thriller, the experience slips into frustration and overemphasis. When the night ends, what remains is the sense that all that noise amounted to very little meaning.
