A new crime thriller fromNetflixhas been well-received on Rotten Tomatoes. The streaming service, which is one of the biggest in the world, features a library of licensed movie and television titles, but they are best known for their original projects, which include massive hits such asSquid Game,Stranger Things, and the 2025 smashKPop Demon Hunters.
Because they produce releases in a wide variety of genres, there have been a number of majorNetflix thrillersin the crime genre. Whilesome have not been well-reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes, such asPain Hustlers(23%) andReptile(44%), others have been better-received, includingThe Irishman(95%),El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie(92%), and their newest outing.
Night Always Comes Has Debuted With A Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Score
Netflix’sNight Always Comeshas won over critics so far. The new Netflix movie is a crime thriller directed by Benjamin Caron (The Crown,Sherlock) andbased on the Willy Vlautin novel published in 2021. Set in the Pacific Northwest, it follows Lynette (The Fantastic Four: First Stepsstar Vanessa Kirby), who is in dire straits and needs money, quickly.
The star-studded ensemble cast of the movie includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly, Zack Gottsagen, Stephen James, andThanksgivingdirector Eli Roth. The movie also features Randall Park, who is a Marvel Cinematic Universe alum just like Kirby, having appeared inAnt-Man and the Wasp,Quantumania, andWandaVision.
Rotten Tomatoeshas now aggregated an official Tomatometer score forNight Always Comes. While the score could fluctuate if and when more reviews are added, at the time of writing, 20 different critics' reviews have been tabulated,giving the movie a Fresh score of 65%.
The majority of the positive reviews have givenNight Always Comesscores of either 3 out of 5 or 7 out of 10, indicating that critics are liking it more than they are loving it. However,the most positive review so far has given the movie 9 out of 10, so there is a range of opinions on the project.
What This Means For Vanessa Kirby
IfNight Always Comesis able to maintain its Fresh score, it will join Vanessa Kirby’s 11 other Fresh movies (which includeThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,Pieces of a Woman,Hobbs & Shaw, and twoMission: Impossiblemovies) to officially make it so thatshe has twice as many Fresh films as Rotten ones.
Night Always Comesalso helps reverse a slump for Vanessa Kirby. The Fresh scores forThe Fantastic Four: First Stepsand the newNetflixmovie come during a time when her recent outings have been largely Rotten. She has earned two-thirds of her Rotten scores since 2021, with the moviesItalian Studies(42%),The Son(29%),Napoleon(58%), andEden(58%).
