Vanessa Kirby has an impressive track record of oscillating between big action fare and demanding emotional drama. When she’s not pulling off complex and thrilling fight choreography in the Mission: Impossible and Fast & Furious franchises (not to mention her first steps into the MCU), she’s baring all in a fraught, lengthy birthing sequence in Pieces Of A Woman .
Night Always Comes feels like a conscious throwback to Kirby’s more pared-back projects, with the actor leading this scuzzy nocturnal thriller. Directed by Benjamin Caron ( Andor , The Crown ), the film is set predominantly over a single night in a Pacific Northwest neighbourhood. After being let down by her unpredictable mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and with the threat of being separated from her disabled