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74 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Jul 12, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
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Night Always Comes is a 2025 drama crime thriller film, directed by Benjamin Caron, starring Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Zack Gottsagen.
- 66 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span May 31, 2024 to Jul 12, 2026
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60 of 74 · most liked first"You know what, never mind, I'd rather just see the new Julia Garner movie." "Fantastic Four or Weapons?" "...Vanessa Kirby?" "Fantastic Four or Night Always Comes?" "Sarah Niles???" "Fantastic Four or Thursday Murder Club?" "MARK GATISS?" "Fantastic Four or Frankenstein?" "AHHHH" "Fantasti
neutral · AI labelView post →They're filming the Netflix movie "The Night Always Comes" outside my window right now. This neighborhood has made the big time, I guess.
neutral · AI labelView post →NIGHT ALWAYS COMES (2025, Netflix, #film) A downbeat crime n' grime flick for exactly three audiences: Portland OR folks who want to see a locally shot movie, fans of Vanessa Kirby carrying an entire movie by herself, and people who want to watch Eli Roth get brained with a lamp. It's alright!
neutral · AI labelView post →"Night Always Comes" is intense, but director Benjamin Caron said filming in Portland was one of his most enjoyable experiences: www.oregonlive.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →Reviews are in for Night Always Comes starring Vanessa Kirby. Stream it on Netflix Friday. www.metacritic.com/movie/night-... “The movie resolves into a relatively deft combination of message picture and suspense thriller.” - Glenn Kenny, New York Times
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching NIGHT ALWAYS COMES #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →What movie has Portland as a war zone? Google: "Night Always Comes (2025): This gritty Netflix drama explores gentrification and social struggles in contemporary Portland. While it doesn't involve a war, it shows a the dark and urgent journey of a woman desperate to save her family's home."
neutral · AI labelView post →Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it. #NightAlwaysComes
neutral · AI labelView post →Any Willy Vlautin fans?? (we see your virtual hand up, Robin) We can't wait for the next heart wrenching read coming in April: THE LEFT AND THE LUCKY. So excited. (get ready by watching the new Netflix movie adaptation of THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES!) #ewgc www.edelweiss.plus?sku=00633466...
neutral · AI labelView post →Willy Vlautin's terrific novel Night Always Comes has been made into a Netflix film, coming August 15th youtu.be/Gd44vTsTUhs?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Portland-filmed movie, "Night Always Comes," streams on Netflix next month: www.oregonlive.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →JW :: Night Always Comes on Netflix — the third Willy Vlautin to be adapted to film. I hope his latest novel The Horse gets adapted someday too. One of my favorite authors of all time who I first learned about from Drive By Truckers singer Patterson Hood name-dropping him in an interview.
neutral · AI labelView post →Vanessa Kirby is compelling as always, making Netflix's NIGHT ALWAYS COMES an absorbing watch, even if the neo-noir underclass odyssey, which unfolds over 12 fraught hours, is stronger as a character study than a portrait of its down-and-out Portland milieu. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's my understanding that Vanessa Kirby is in another big summer movie, but the only one that matters to me is NIGHT ALWAYS COMES, adapted from Willy Vlautin's brilliant noir novel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd44...
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes (2025) Movie Review - Vanessa Kirby Commands Netflix’s Grim Thriller - @nymynet #nightalwayscomes #Netflix #MovieReview #NymyNet #vanessakirby #movies nymynet.com/night-always...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched "Night Always Comes" - www.imdb.com/title/tt3156... Good premise, acting's OK, music is kinda killer. Overall though the movie is so confused about its own tone that the end result is more lame than clever, and more clumsy than slick. 4/10 #Movies #Review
negative · AI labelView post →My ★★½ review of Night Always Comes on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/aONvit #265moviereview #NightAlwaysComes #Netflix #movies
negative · AI labelView post →On edge watching Night Always Comes. Getting Uncut Gems vibes. #film #movies #nightalwayscomes https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31567422/
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Night Always Comes, and my goodness this movie is anxiety inducing.
neutral · AI labelView post →6) I attended the cast-and-crew screening of the film "Night Always Comes", which was filmed here in Portland. It was a good movie, but it was definitely not "Portlandia"! Thanks to Oregon Film, the Portland Film Office, and Netflix for inviting me! You can watch it on Netflix now!
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes review – Vanessa Kirby gets lost in poverty thriller www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
neutral · AI labelView post →#Netflix #movie alert! The #trailer has been released for #NightAlwaysComes, a gritty thriller starring #VanessaKirby (The Fantastic Four: First Steps) as a woman pushed to the brink in one desperate night.
neutral · AI labelView post →We're so excited to share that Willy Vlautin’s gritty page-turner THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES has been adapted into a @netflix.com film premiering August 15. bit.ly/44BlE5j
neutral · AI labelView post →have not read Willy Vlautin's source novel THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES, but he's the reason the movie was on my radar. One of my pals who's a Vlautin fan was disappointed with the adaptation. PLAY DIRTY is probably more enjoyable as a Shane Black movie than as a Richard Stark riff. Luckily I love Black
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes mcphersonsmoviemarquee.blogspot.com/2025/09/nigh...
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes is a deeply moving film that blends raw storytelling with powerful performances.
positive · AI labelView post →I've seen very few movies this year so i wouldn't call most of them great, but they were enjoyable. I've seen Lilo and Stitch, Captain America and the Falcon, How to Train your Dragon, Mountainhead and Night Always Comes, and that John Cena/Idris Elba movie besides those.
neutral · AI labelView post →Willy Vlautin fans - I had no idea there was a movie of The Night Always Comes but there is and it's on Netflix! youtu.be/Gd44vTsTUhs?...
neutral · AI labelView post →This week’s edition of Movie Reviews 2025 includes reviews for: 📺 Night Always Comes 🎥 The Life of Chuck 🎥 Eddington 📺 Red Sonja 📺 The Map That Leads to You #MovieReviews2025 #Movies #Films #RedSonja
neutral · AI labelView post →This week’s edition of Movie Reviews 2025 includes reviews for: 📺 Night Always Comes 🎥 The Life of Chuck 🎥 Eddington 📺 Red Sonja 📺 The Map That Leads to You #MovieReviews2025 #Movies #Films #RedSonja
neutral · AI labelView post →In case you missed my written review of Night Always Comes, head on over to The Pisces Guide to Pop Culture on YouTube to catch the shorter version! youtu.be/QU8ISPJuFs0
positive · AI labelView post →If you haven't seen Night Always Comes, do so! It's a powerful piece of social drama filmmaking, grounded by a truly terrific and gut-wrenching performance from Vanessa Kirby. It holds up much-needed mirror to America, exposing the horrors of poverty. open.substack.com/pub/omnivoro...
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight, #portland #film fam: "Tetsuo The Iron Man"! https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/tetsuo-the-iron-man/ "Le Pont du Nord" (1981)! https://www.5thavecinema.com/ Shot in Portland "Night Always Comes"! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome to 2025 where this actually great film dropped yesterday to Netflix and nobody is talking about it. Seriously, Night Always Comes is great!
positive · AI labelView post →I still haven't seen either one! 😂 I was looking at a USA Today article today about new streaming movies. There's a Vanessa Kirby (Sue Storm!) movie called Night Always Comes on Netflix that looks interesting. Hulu has The Monkey, based on a Stephen King story. Pedro Pascal (Reed Richards!) and...⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote a film review for Benjamin Caron's dark crime thriller Night Always Comes (2025) starring Vanessa Kirby. boxd.it/aK9vLz
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of Night Always Comes on Letterboxd boxd.it/aK5xpx
positive · AI labelView post →There are stakes, but the execution is empty; it always comes across as a capital M movie rather than a story with authenticity #NightAlwaysComes www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...
negative · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes [59] is now on Netflix: www.metacritic.com/movie/night-... "It is just as chaotic, caught between peril and hope, as our reality. The ugliness and the potential of humanity are rarely this captivating." - Shawn Van Horn, Collider
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes is a movie with a great cast, but how does that cast stack up to the movie itself. Click Below for the Review youtu.be/t0BVVlEcirQ #NightAlwaysComes #Netflix #MovieEmporium
neutral · AI labelView post →New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: NOBODY 2, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, EAST OF WALL, FIXED, NIGHT ALWAYS COMES, WENT UP THE HILL. www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/arc...
neutral · AI labelView post →NOW IN PAPERBACK! Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Award, a powerful story about loneliness, redemption, and the fragile beauty of being human from the author of LEAN ON PETE, THE FREE, and THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES soon to be a Netflix film.
neutral · AI labelView post →So August is bringing us film adaptations of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN and THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES? I’m beside myself.
neutral · AI labelView post →What a trash movie, but from the current Hollywood, I'm not surprised. There's nothing good about this movie. Literally all the characters are depressed, in a bad mood, swearing and not a single smile or positivity in this garbage movie. The film mistakes non-stop depression, swearing, and misery for "realism" or "depth". All the characters are bad except that guy with the Down syndrom "Kenny". Main character is probably the worst of all of them. She sells her body. She steals car from her…
negative · AI labelView post →2026 Film Reviews 226. The Beaches of Agnès (2008) - 5.0 227. Trading Places (1983) - 5.0 228. Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie (2025) - 4.5 229. Night Always Comes (2025) - 3.5 #2026FilmsDH
positive · AI labelView post →Added to the list of movies I wish I never watched. Not entertaining and writing was horrible. Sometimes I wonder how these types of movies even get made, but do not recommend watching this movie unless you are a family member of someone unfortunate to be casted in it.
negative · AI labelView post →#NightAlwaysComes #VanessaKirby #BenjaminCaron www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
neutral · AI labelView post →'Night Always Comes' delivered a good flick. I do tend to like these gritty crime dramas, so I'm pleased to say that I can list this one in that bracket. Vanessa Kirby comes in with a strong performance, I'm happy to belatedly see her act as the front and centre of a film. There is plenty of action across the 108mins, atmospherically the movie is spot on. It can get quite frustrating but seemingly by design, Doreen is particuarly infuriating - gaslighter of the century, that one! Bar Kirby,…
positive · AI labelView post →Do you enjoy depressing thrillers that leave you bad depressed not good depressed? Then may I recommend Night Always Comes, a film that is so poorly paced it’s clear it doesn’t know what it wants to be—but I’ll tell you what it is: sad without point. No insight, no purpose. It’s all for nothing.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #NightAlwaysComes #BreakingBad #Dexter 10 Thrilling Crime Shows To Watch if You Love 'Night Always Comes' http://dlvr.it/TMlN52
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh deary me, what a mess. First of all, the script and direction is atrocious. Lines are terrible, and in terms of direction, somehow they managed to turn every actor, including the two very talented main actresses, into awkward local amateur theater members. When everyone on set seems uncomfortable and stilted, that's when you know the director sucks. Then, the story. OMG, the story. Our protagonist is the dumbest person on the planet, perhaps only superceded by her mother, except this…
negative · AI labelView post →#NightAlwaysComes #review #movie Vanessa Kirby and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in this drama. https://oldaintdead.com/night-always-comes-with-an-outstanding-vanessa-kirby/
neutral · AI labelView post →#NightAlwaysComes #movie #review A stunning Vanessa Kirby stars in this tense drama that happens all in one day. https://oldaintdead.com/night-always-comes-with-an-outstanding-vanessa-kirby/
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes with an outstanding Vanessa Kirby Night Always Comes is worth seeing. Not because it’s a good movie – it’s barely average – but because Vanessa Kirby gives a jaw dropping performance as a woman trying to save her family from being evicted from their home. […] https://oldaintdead.com/night-always-comes-with-an-outstanding-vanessa-kirby/
neutral · AI labelView post →While Night Always Comes appears to be quite divisive, I really enjoyed it, especially as a vehicle for showing off how impressive an actor Vanessa Kirby really is. My thoughts below. allnewthatmoviesite.blogspot.com/2025/08/nigh...
positive · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes. Almost good. Has its moments, Vanessa Kirby is solid, and the film looks pretty. But it tries hard, and sometimes you just don't have it. And it doesn't. #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →What did we publish yesterday? 8/22 In addition to Danny Coleman's weekly column, a podcast on filmmaking in NJ, a video on ArtYard, and a review of the film "Night Always Comes", we ran stories on theatre, music, film, & community. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like NJ Stage!
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Always Comes Watch Movie for FREE - trendingmovies70.blogspot.com/2025/08/nigh...
neutral · AI labelView post →Though rendered with a potent and gritty atmosphere by director Benjamin Caron, Night Always Comes presents a stark and dim image of poverty, sex work, and desperation that languishes so much in misery not even Vanessa Kirby's valiant efforts can redeem it.
negative · AI labelView post →Hell yeah this new Netflix movie “Night Always Comes” was filmed in Portland
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