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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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)....

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...

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...

At the end of Toy Story 5, Bonnie – with the support of Jessie, Woody, Buzz, and an army of Buzz Lightyears – makes friends...

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...

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 isn’t a whodunit. From an early stage, it’s pretty obvious who’s at fault, and the answer is pretty much everyone. The...

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...

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...

If you were expecting the 10 Dance competition to feature in the ending of the movie 10 Dance, well… more fool you. Do I really...

One of the pleasures of the Now You See Me movies is the final trick, an elaborate show-stopper set-piece that highlights how everything was all...

I’m pleased to report – albeit behind schedule – that Wake Up Dead Man, the third in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out mysteries, is probably the...