‘Night Always Comes’ Review! Vanessa Kirby Delivers Her Most Chilling Role Yet Making For A Great Performance

 written by Evan L. Jackson

Vanessa Kirby is no stranger to delivering wonderful performances but in ‘Night Always Comes’ the newest film on Netflix it’s her most chilling role yet. Coming off of her Academy Award nomination for ‘Pieces of A Woman’ and her star gazing role as Sue Storm in Marvel’s ‘The Fantastic Four’ in this film she dives deeper into her vulnerability bag as an actress! Just wow! 

She almost single handily carries this film from the emotional weight of it to its crushing conclusion. If this film was released in the early 2000s it would seen as a critical darling and immediate Oscar buzz for Vanessa. In the film she delivers a tour de force performance where she plays a desperate woman trying to save her childhood home with a mother impeding her at every stop and a brother- Kenny portrayed by ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’s - she looks over. Each scene is a race against time and a battle within a battle which Vanessa’s character wins but also unlocks unhealed trauma from a dark past. You as a viewer don’t know what depth of hell her character has to be further entrenched in until it crescendos in what of the final scenes. Pushing back against a would be predator creepily play by Eli Roth. One last transaction and she has the $25,000 needed but she chooses to fight back. It’s sad but also shocking her determination and will.

The ending of the film almost feels like a gut punch to the stomach. Oof! Why! Ultimately the loan agent form the bank decides to go with the higher bidder. Right before that call from the loan agent, her and Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character - who plays her mom- have a revealing exchange. She has to choose her self because not even her mom wants her! One last moment before she goes she hugs Kenny goodbye. And it’s almost a relief she didn’t go through with saving the house. She was actually free from the trauma and exercised her demons the entire night. Almost if she survived that she can survive anything. Vanessa goes into her most harrowing place of her career and she should get that Oscar nomination for this.