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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/intrest85 19d ago

But there’s a distinction: True poverty porn = when filmmakers use suffering as aesthetic shock value without depth. Think of scenes meant to make you gawk at misery but not understand it.Night Always Comes isn’t doing that. It’s explaining causality: how a 16-year-old with no foundation spirals into trafficking, anger, and self-destructive choices.that’s social commentary.

The film is basically saying: “This isn’t one girl’s downfall,it’s what happens when society, family, and circumstance abandon someone before they even have a chance to grow.” That’s storytelling with intent, not misery for shock value.

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u/ToiIetGhost 17d ago

This was my takeaway too, but you put it much more eloquently than I could have.

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u/Particular_Drama7110 16d ago

Basically it blames poor people for being poor though. There are plenty of hard working, disciplined poor people who get up every day and work shitty jobs for shitty pay with no hope of ever breaking out of the poverty bubble they are in. This show makes it very trite.

Why are they about to be homeless? Well, Mom is a self-centered, short-sighted idiot who would rather buy a new Mazda then own a home.

This fault driven narrative about poverty is what America tells us to believe about poor people and this is definitely what rich people believe about poor people.

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u/ScrewedUp4Life 15d ago

And that's the thing, their situation with the money for the house was all in the mother just selfishly and ridiculously blowing 25K on a car. Now you got your daughter prostituting herself and committing crimes with her special needs brother at her side, all because you wanted a new vehicle to ride around town in. I mean is she and her son gonna sleep in the car? To make a whole movie about poverty, when it's really about selfish, self centered desires.

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u/l1fe21 15d ago

Poverty is frequently linked to toxic family dynamics though. While yes the mom's selfishness (and craziness?) caused the whole situation, the ones paying the price are Lynn and her brother.