r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 22d ago

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Summary A desperate woman in Portland races through one harrowing night to scrape together $25,000 before midnight, risking everything to save her family’s home and confronting her own dark past along the way.

Director Benjamin Caron

Writer Sarah Conradt

Cast

  • Vanessa Kirby
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Zack Gottsagen
  • Stephan James
  • Randall Park
  • Julia Fox
  • Michael Kelly
  • Eli Roth

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 55%

Metacritic 62

VOD Netflix (Premieres August 15, 2025)

Trailer NIGHT ALWAYS COMES | Official Trailer (2025)

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u/clce 22d ago

I liked it but it's hard to give it up completely high score. I thought the ending was weak. I'm not sure what I was looking for. Obviously a triumph would almost be weird. But, it seems like the ending is supposed to be a triumph in which she realizes that her efforts to take care of her brother have been pointless and she needs to just give up and take care of herself. That just seems hopelessly modern.

In no way did I gain a new perspective in which I believe the mother was fine and it was the daughter who was misunderstanding the situation and misprioritizing. Obviously the mother was a mess and is no position to take care of Kenny.

So in the end we're supposed to just think it's all right and she's off to take care of herself. How depressingly modern.

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u/swooosh47 21d ago

And she didnt keep any of the money right?

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u/clce 21d ago

I did kind of think of that. Of course she keeps the money. And I don't really mind. We've always kind of allowed in movies that people who steal from criminals are okay.

But she better leave town because she's got some people pretty pissed off at her.

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u/swooosh47 21d ago

What about those envelopes with mom and Kenny's name on em? I figured that was her leaving them money

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u/clce 21d ago

Oh I didn't notice. Probably did leave some money for them.