Movie Explainers

Troll was extremely popular for Netflix, which means the entire franchise is now cursed. You can tell from the ending of Troll 2, which seems...

Let’s get the first spoiler out in the open. Jingle Bell Heist, technically, has no heist. And the plot twist surrounding it isn’t all that...

Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s Baramulla exists at the intersection of genre, where real-life horrors combine with the supernatural kind, and the solution is, ultimately, a gunfight....

Originally conceived as a full series, doomed by a disastrous production and thought to be consigned to the great dustbin of non-starter spin-offs and supplementary...

I know what you’re thinking – does the dog die? Let me save you the suspense. No, he doesn’t. Indy makes it out of Good...

I wasn’t a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, a too-glossy triptych boasting too many stars and a recursive storytelling gimmick that...

It’s very hard to come up with a happy ending in a zombie movie, which is probably why The Elixir doesn’t even try. This, I’d argue, is...

Good News (2025) opens with a disclaimer that, while the story is based on real events, most of it is entirely fictional. And this largely...

Look, nobody, least of all me, thought that Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead was going to have a happy ending. But I didn’t expect...

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...

The ending of The Woman in Cabin 10 has the curious distinction of being both too silly and ridiculous to be believed but also nowhere...

You’re not supposed to quite know what to make of the ending of Steve, particularly its final frames depicting the titular headteacher climbing a ladder...

And of course, it all comes down to a fight. This seems fitting for the ending of Mantis, which is about the battle for leadership...

There’s quite a lot bundled up in the ending of The Thursday Murder Club. Not one whodunit but technically two, there aren’t just a couple...

Fall for Me is a tale of two sisters, both idiots, who find themselves ensnared in a sexy scheme to defraud them of an expansive...

The romance between Anna and Jamie at the end of My Oxford Year is bittersweet, but it does provide meaning, especially behind the foundations of...

War of the Worlds (2025) is impressively terrible in a lot of different ways, but its ending is particularly egregious. What is otherwise an ill-advised...

In many ways, A Normal Woman has exactly the ending you’d expect it to have, albeit spiced up with a touch of ambiguity. And this,...