Movie Explainers

Bringing Christmas Home is piled high with deeper themes and meanings for a simple Christmas movie. I found at least six themes that all come...

If we discuss the meaning and ending of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, we must start at the beginning. In the opening scene, we see...

While it seems obvious who survived and died by the time you reach the end of Something in the Water, some questions are still poised....

The end of Subservience does stretch the story arc too much. You could argue that the ending was a little much for a movie about...

To me, the ending of Netflix’s Mary is summed up within the final few minutes of the movie. Herod the Evil King has been abandoned...

The ending of The Red Virgin is chilling, which predominantly is credited to Alba Planas and Najwa Nimri (Holy Family, Insiders, Money Heist), who navigate...

My thoughts on the ending of Let Go are more of a love letter to the film. Whether Gustav and Stella divorced in the end...

The ending of Don’t Move is ironic in many ways because “Richard” caused his downfall with Iris, ultimately leading his victim to escape and his...

The last twenty minutes of Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, is impactful. The ending ultimately shows the rightful downfall of Rodney Alcala,...

At the start of Justice, Tadeusz Gadacz had suspicions about who carried out the horrific bank robbery, but without motive or disproving the solid alibi,...

The ending of Uprising is a full-circle experience: a former slave and master (and a misunderstood friendship spanning years) finally meet in a bloody battle...

I respect the ending of CTRL, even though I don’t like the movie very much. It seems right to me that a techno thriller about...

You’d think that the ending of Trouble, which sees Conny carrying a television around a hotel with police officer Diana, would be rather silly. But...

A True Gentleman is not a happy movie, so it shouldn’t have a happy ending. Because of this, I can’t help but feel like its...

Since Netflix’s Uglies is based on Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 series-launching book of the same name, it should come as no surprise that the movie’s ending...

It’s hard to tell if the cliffhanger ending of Sector 36 is hinting at a sequel or providing a resonant note of deliberate ambiguity. This...

The ending of Officer Black Belt sums up the theme that has been running throughout the entire movie – the burgeoning sense of duty and...

There’s not a happy ending for Boxer—in fact, it’s depressing for Jedrzej and his wife Kasia, who have been torn apart by their circumstances and...