Night Always Comes (2025) Directed by Benjamin Caron

Review:

In addition to their entertainment appeal, crime thrillers have the potential to raise awareness about real-life issues affecting our cities. Such is the case with Benjamin Caron’s “Night Always Comes” - a film about greed, desperation, and betrayal - which illustrates the devastating impacts of gentrification, and the extreme lengths some might go to in order to keep their homes.

Based on the 2021 novel “The Night Always Comes” by Willy Vlautin, the film throws audiences onto the streets of Portland, Oregon - a city once considered the epicenter of gentrification in the United States. There we meet Lynette (Vanessa Kirby), a young woman struggling to provide for her ungrateful mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and older brother (

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