Usually, when a movie ends, the credits roll and that’s that.
It’s one thing for a movie to recontextualize itself in a finalscene.
as Angela emits an unearthly shriek.
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Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions toward her gets their comeuppance.
Like many of Haneke’s movies,the ending offers zero easy answers.
At least as far as viewers know, these two characters shouldn’t know each other…
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Unless, perhaps, they both planned all of this.
They start to replicate the citizens, one body at a time.
The characters can’t possibly know who to trust.
Angela Baker, a shy, traumatized young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions toward her gets their comeuppance.
It’s the tale of a rock star who’s brutally killed with an ice pick while having intercourse.
As he enters a lustful mind-game with her, he begins to doubt his suspicions.
It’s endings like this that make movies likeBasic Instinctso re-watchable.
Humans on this planet are mute and treated as inferior beings.
Captured and imprisoned by the apes, Taylor must navigate their complex society to survive.
He gains allies in Zira and Cornelius, two chimpanzee scientists who are intrigued by his intelligence.
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A sinister presence, however, starts influencing him into madness and violence.
Such tends to be the case with final frames as game-changing as this one.
The Graduate’s ending is one of the most brilliant and emotionally stirring in Hollywood history.
Had the film ended here, it would have been a sweet rom-com finale, but it doesn’t.
Whatever it ends up being, it surely won’t be picture-perfect.
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Its ending in particular is among the most powerful in film history.
It makes a re-watch ofCitizen Kanepretty much an obligation.
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When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city’s residents one body at a time.
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A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
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A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
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Directed by and starring Orson Welles in his feature film debut, Citizen Kane tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a self-made business tycoon partially based on William Randolph Hearst. The film tells the story of Kane’s rise and fall from power, narratively framed by the sensation caused by death at the beginning and end of the film. Besides Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and Ruth Warrick also star.
