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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...

The ending of a musical movie is usually a big performance, and while Technoboys gets there eventually, it’s beside the point. Instead, the Netflix movie...

The Deliverance is not only about the ending. There is an abundance of themes and meanings that lead to holistic answers with many truths. While...

Untamed Royals ends with a sinister shot. After committing a heinous crime, which resulted in the death of young boy Vincente, the three accomplices, Xavi,...

Once it’s established that Tòkunbò’s baby son has died after not getting the treatment needed in time while in captivity with his mother, I was...

In the teenage-fuelled house party movie Incoming, freshman Benj feels he has a chance with Bailey, a girl he has a super crush on. Benj...

I liked the ending of The Union just as much as the rest of the movie. As I said in my review, Mark Wahlberg and...

The third act of Mission: Cross has a lot riding on it, but it’s worth the symbolic ending for the husband and wife. As the...

Things are boiling over as we reach the end of One Fast Move. Wes has lost a good woman in Camila, who disapproves of his...

The ending of Lolo and the Kid would not work without context. The older man is not the biological grandfather of the kid. It’s explained...