A moving, riveting movie that highlights the power of sisterhood, both on and off screen.

| Aug 8, 2018

Night Comes On focuses on the challenge of trying to make sense of a situation that makes no sense at all, and its suggestion of revenge is one method, and its suggestion of love is another.

| Aug 7, 2018

The quest-plot puts a solid frame around what's essentially a sensitive study of a shattered family, poorly served by the social institutions meant to keep them safe.

| Aug 3, 2018

An unusual and interesting feature that tries to convey the inner state of a non-communicative young woman mainly through reaction shots of her face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2018

Though slow, it's intense, and you're hooked from its first scene... to its last, wrenching image. Spiro is a real filmmaker.

| Aug 3, 2018

Like its determined heroine, "Night Comes On" burns with a smoldering fire, a heat that is no less intense, no less effective, for remaining largely beneath the surface.

| Aug 2, 2018

Fortunately, Night Comes On continues to dial back its sense of drama for its long-awaited final confrontations, which offer open endings that hint at a future worth pursuing.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 2, 2018

A film that balances penetrating clarity with compassion.

| Aug 2, 2018

All through the film, you pray it doesn't go down the bleak routes that films like this usually go - and, most of the time, it does.

| Aug 1, 2018

The array of talent-Spiro, Nwandu, Lavielle, Fishback and Hall-is enough to separate this film from a crowded field of low-budget indie movies that don't have nearly this much heart and vision. Night Comes On is a memorable and intense family portrait.

| Aug 1, 2018

Fishback and Hall move confidently between the obvious ironies and foreshadowings of Spiro's kitchen sink (as in, "everything but the ______") realism.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 1, 2018

"Night Comes On" is, true to its title, blanketed in a dim, crepuscular state of waiting. Fishback, her film career unfurling clearly before her from scene to scene, blazes a way out of it.

| Feb 5, 2018

A strikingly tender handling of such a tough albeit totally human tale. The amount of empathy within Night Comes On is a spectacle itself.

| Jan 31, 2018

Night Comes On is about loss, pain, revenge and what women (Black women in particular) are forced to endure. However, at its core, the film is about sisterhood and all of the joys and aches that come with it.

| Jan 25, 2018

Small but satisfying.

| Jan 23, 2018