The line between historical recreation and genre reimagining has seldom been as effectively blurred as in Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás' "It Would Be Night in Caracas." A pacy thriller, based on Karina Sainz Borgo's novel, the film mines pulpy pleasures from an apocalyptic vision of Venezuela's 2017 riots. Those unfamiliar with the nation's recent [...]
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'It Would Be Night in Caracas' Review: A Gripping Thriller Sees Venezuela's Violent Recent Past Echo Into Our Violent Present
October 31, 2025
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