A new crime thriller has officially climbed into Netflix’s Top 10. Sitting just behind K-Pop Demon Hunters is a dark, gritty film called Night Always Comes. The movie dropped on the streamer less than a week ago (on August 15, to be exact) and it’s already stirring up major buzz—for one big reason: no one can seem to agree if they love it or hate it.
Let’s start at the beginning—what is Night Always Comes even about? The Netflix original is based on the 2021 novel The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin. It stars Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible, Fantastic Four) as Lynette, a flawed but fiercely determined anti-heroine who dives headfirst into Portland’s criminal underworld in a desperate, all-night race to come up with $25,000 to keep her family from being evicted.
The cast is stacked, too—featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagen, Stephan James, Randall Park, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly and Eli Roth.
