Night Always Comes (2025)

Night Always Comes (2025)

It’s really hard for me to watch a movie where the main character is so unlikeable. We follow a woman whose mother is annoying, and so is her brother. And, as luck would have it, it’s Vanessa Kirby again! Honestly, I don’t care for her at all. I think she’s a pretty bad actress. I thought she was the worst Ms. Fantastic in the latest Fantastic Four movie, titled The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025). And she also plays the least interesting and least likable character in Eden (2024).

I haven’t seen Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning – Part One (2023) or Mission: Impossible 8 – The Final Reckoning – Part Two (2025), though. It’s worth noting that she does appear in one of my favorite shark movies, 47 Meters Down (2017)!

As for Jennifer Jason Leigh, she’s always had a knack for getting on my nerves! But she appears in quite a few more-than-decent films like The Hitcher (1986), Backdraft (1991), A Thousand Acres (1997), Annihilation (2018), or in the lead female role in The Hateful Eight (2015), with Zoë Bell being largely absent from the film. Jennifer is also in the not-too-bad Morgan (2016). As for David Cronenberg’s films, it’s clear that Existenz (1999) isn’t a movie for everyone! On the other hand, Dolores (Claiborne) (1995) isn’t your typical Stephen King horror film, but a drama. I haven’t seen The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) yet, but I think it’s also an important film.

My favorite, to date, is still Single White Female (1992)—I absolutely love it!

When I’m bored out of my mind halfway through a movie, I stop watching and go look up the negative reviews. They often put my mind at ease. Then I’m completely taken aback when I look at the few positive reviews, but they offer so little substance that they don’t seem very important or credible.

A perfect representation of today’s society: a completely irresponsible woman with nothing in her head, who doesn’t think about the consequences of her actions and spends her time playing the victim. Sure, people are going to feel sorry for this poor girl even though she just keeps piling one stupid mistake on top of another.

By the way, even Eli Roth has a small role here! That’s usually not a good sign! Yes, yes, I’m definitely talking about the director of Hostel – Chapters 1 & 2.

This is one of those movies where you constantly see the time. The twist is that every time you see a certain time, you also see it move forward by a minute.

A thriller/crime drama by Benjamin Caron that’s pretty bland, uninteresting, rather poorly acted, and constantly stuck in limbo. Thriller or not? In the end, a succession of choices made and not made—often absurd!

Based on Willy Vlautin’s novel The Night Always Comes: In Portland, Lynette (Vanessa Kirby) desperately tries to raise enough money in a single night to save the family home, all while protecting her brother Kenny (Zack Gottsagen) and confronting a past that catches up with her at every turn. Released on Netflix on August 15, 2025, the film follows this “nocturnal odyssey” in a headlong rush, where every encounter (drug deals, debts, violence, humiliation) tightens the noose.

Vanessa Kirby, who plays a protagonist who is at once tough, damaged, and impulsive, is meant to bring a constant physical intensity to the narrative. The direction effectively exploits the idea of compressed time (one night, one race), which, in theory, creates continuous tension and a sticky atmosphere of a gentrified and hostile city. But the result left me cold: the “misfortune upon misfortune” dynamic eventually becomes repetitive, and the story fragments into episodes that don’t always build to a clear dramatic climax. By constantly dwelling on the worst, the film becomes more grueling than captivating.

A feature film that’s certainly appealing in terms of its visuals and its cool opening sequence, but ultimately very disappointing. I really get the impression that the main goal here is to propel the actress into the spotlight by churning out films with poorly written scripts, as if she needs to star in as many movies as possible to establish herself in pop culture. The result: this movie is a total flop. Netflix is a far cry from the serious productions of its early days, and the platform is turning into the fast food of cinema.

That said, I really liked the last fifteen minutes. I don’t know if it’s because it was nearing the end… but I suddenly sensed a good performance and a pretty powerful moment… even if the moral is cheap! Yes, a bad movie with a rather simplistic moral: think a little more before doing whatever you want!