Speaker 1: This week on Real Reviews, we head into the dark
Speaker 1: underbelly of the Pacific Northwest with a tense all night odyssey.
Speaker 1: Night Always Comes as part survival story, part moral reckoning,
Speaker 1: a film that asks how far someone will go when
Speaker 1: the clock is ticking, the stakes of life changing, and
Speaker 1: every choice carries a cost. Based on Willie Vaughton's novel
Speaker 1: and directed by Benjamin Karan, who also directed The Crown
Speaker 1: and and Or, Night Always Comes follows Lynette played by
Speaker 1: Vanessa Kirby, a woman on the edge, literally hours away
Speaker 1: from losing her family's home. With twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: standing between her and eviction, she plunges into a frantic
Speaker 1: twenty four hour race to raise the money by any
Speaker 1: means necessary. Lynette lives with her mother, Doreen, played by
Speaker 1: Jennifer Jason Lee, and her developmentally disabled older brother, Kenny
Speaker 1: played by Zach Gottenseagin. With her mother unwilling or perhaps unable,
Speaker 1: to help, Lynette takes the burden on herself. What follows
Speaker 1: is a relentless journey through pawnshops, drug deals, shady favors,
Speaker 1: and old acquaintances who'd rather see her fail than help her. Succeed.
Speaker 1: Karan frames the Pacific Northwest not as a postcard backdrop,
Speaker 1: but as a world closing in rain. Slicks streetat industrial decay,
Speaker 1: neon dive bars and half lit motels become characters in
Speaker 1: their own right. The film's pacing marror's Lynette's mental state.
Speaker 1: Moments of quiet calculation give way the sudden burst of chaos,
Speaker 1: each scene tightening the noose around her. Kirby delivers a
Speaker 1: fiercely committed performance, grimy, desperate, and stripped of vanity. This
Speaker 1: is not a role built on glamour, is built on
Speaker 1: sheer will power. She's magnetic even when Lynette is making
Speaker 1: morally questionable choices. Lee, in limited screen time, quietly embodies
Speaker 1: the interaction that fuels her daughter's rage, while Got Sagan
Speaker 1: brings a heart heartfelt excuse me vulnerability to Kenny that
Speaker 1: raises the emotional stakes to find. James Randall Park and
Speaker 1: Julia Fox make brief but memorable turns as people from
Speaker 1: Lynette's past and pre as an who forced her to
Speaker 1: navigate betrayal, temptation, and fleeting opportunities. Thematically, Night always Comes
Speaker 1: lives in that space between survival and surrender. It's not
Speaker 1: interested in tidy morality, Koran understands that in a system
Speaker 1: designed to break you, they're no clean choices. The film asks,
Speaker 1: if it's called survival, do you still deserve redemption, and
Speaker 1: wisely leaves the answer up to us. Night always comes
Speaker 1: as a hard edged rain, soak descent into desperation. It's
Speaker 1: not perfect, some scenes overstay their welcome, but Kirby's performance
Speaker 1: in Kuran's atmospheric direction make it a gripping ride. I
Speaker 1: gave this film a B Midas. To read the full review,
Speaker 1: go visit us over at thefilm Gordon dot com and
Speaker 1: until next week Peace n