Movie Explainers
Are you looking for an explanation of a movie’s ending? Have you encountered a plot point you are unsure about or a character or person who is stumping you? This page will help you and keep you up to date on the latest Movie Explainers.
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‘The Last House’ Has Plenty Of Problems, But Its Lame Creature Design Is the Worst
You know a good movie monster when you see one. The Predator! The Xenomorph! The Pale Man! Even those spindly Death Angels from A Quiet...
‘The Last House’ Ending Explained – Well, That Was Exceptionally Silly, Wasn’t It?
Of all the ways I thought that Louis Leterrier’s Shyamalan-adjacent Netflix thriller The Last House might end, I certainly didn’t predict what ultimately happens. Granted,...
What the Ending And Post-Credits Scene Of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Say About the MCU’s Future
Even though they tend to come out between the major event movies and exist in a relatively contained pocket of the MCU continuity, the Spider-Man...
‘The Truthers’ Ending Explained – An Anticlimax Is the Point, But Not A Good One
The Truthers has what might charitably be described as an anti-ending. In the spaces where all the payoff would be in a more traditional murder...
How Ian and Angela Diaz Masterminded A Miscarriage Of Justice In ‘A Toxic Love Story’
As ever, Netflix is leading the charge on salacious true-crime stories that snatch the interest of genre fans and ignite that innate anger about injustice....
Explaining ‘The Odyssey’: How Christopher Nolan Rewrote Greek Myth and Homer’s Text
The Odyssey is quite the journey. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is an extraordinary movie, a bombastic, visually remarkable, thematically rich modernisation of...
‘Desire’ Ending Explained – All the Dumb Stuff That Happens in This Dumb Movie
In many ways, the laughably silly ending of Netflix’s Desire is a very unconventional form of marriage counselling. Just cheat on your spouse with a...
‘Nothing to Lose’ Ending Explained – Why Jada’s Success Undermines the Message A Bit
Netflix’s French-language sort-of thriller Nothing to Lose makes light of a serious subject by having its ending reach levels of distracting ridiculousness. While a strident...
‘Enola Holmes 3’ Ending Explained – How A Bit of Pirate Plunder Sets Up A Sequel
For a brief moment, the ending of Enola Holmes 3 feels like the ending of the entire franchise, which, based on this most recent effort,...
‘Citizen Vigilante’ Ending Explained – Why the Climax Is an Explicit Call to Arms
As obviously dreadful a film as Citizen Vigilante is, its cult success has become impossible to ignore (and has perhaps even spawned a sequel already)....
Supergirl Isn’t Really Happy In the End
At the end of Supergirl, our troubled superhero kills Krem for poisoning her dog, but only after stopping Ruthye from killing the villain herself. She...
‘Voicemails for Isabelle’ Ending Explained – Finding Love and Closure
Near the end of Voicemails for Isabelle, Jill learns a dark secret: the man she has fallen in love with, Wes, already knew everything about...
What the Ending of ‘Toy Story 5’ Means for Our Kids
At the end of Toy Story 5, Bonnie – with the support of Jessie, Woody, Buzz, and an army of Buzz Lightyears – makes friends...
‘Your Fault: London’ Ending Explained – These Two Should Learn to Communicate
I said this in the review, but Your Fault: London is about making its protagonists, Noah and Nick, suffer for the ill-advised nature of their...
‘Disclosure Day’ Ending Is Lackluster, Void of Impact, and Lacks Emotion
By the end of Disclosure Day, Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo; The Madness) has managed to jolt the memories of Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt; Oppenheimer) and...
‘Colors of Evil: Black’ Ending Explained – Piotrus’s Kidnapping Exposes Generational Rot
Colors of Evil: Black isn’t a whodunit. From an early stage, it’s pretty obvious who’s at fault, and the answer is pretty much everyone. The...
How the Ending of ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Sets Up A Sequel
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...
‘The Big Fake’ Ending Explained – Toni’s Moral Bankruptcy Isn’t A Big Surprise
And the moral of the story is, you can’t really trust criminals very much. This illuminating idea underpins the ending of The Big Fake, which...