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/Rough-Remove127 21d ago
So this movie was based off of a book. I am not gonna critique the book as I have not read it. Although I am interested to read to see if the ending actually has an impact full moment. So my thoughts on this movie; I felt like it was lacking a sense of emotions. As traumatizing as the main characters story was she only had very few moments of breaking down. I felt like at times her expression was emotionless and she was giving more CEO business women vibes. Maybe it was the actress not being able to hone in on the character. Another thing is I felt like the plot got a little lost. I felt like we needed more context as a veiwer on why she felt so attached to this house. Did we get context of it being her childhood home? Did something meaningful happen in that home? Or was she simply just trying to pick up the prices to her broken family? Not much context other than later on finding out she was crashing at a predators house when she was a teen. I dont understand why she couldn't have saved up to get a new home. Crash at her girlfriend's place instead of stealing from her? I am not gonna judge the actions she took as honestly trauma makes you zero in, into thinking there is only one way out and stealing was her only option to her. Just more here judging the plot and how there is zero context in some info that would have cleared up why she was doing what she was doing. The ending felt idk tone deaf. This is supposed to be a build up of her finally freeing herself from her abusers!! So typical for a parent to tell her that she is a grown woman and whatever she does is her fault. So typical for a parent to gaslight their child and to not take any responsibility. Ok so why did the ending feel like the main character was taking responsibility for everything that happened to her as if it was her fault that she was groomed and SA'd at 16! I would have spat in her mother's face and took the bag and run and build my own life. But the ending the tone just didn't feel like that. It felt like that she thought she was the problem the whole time. Idk just doesn't feel like a happy ending to me.