Movie Explainers

The ending of Follow (2025), also known by its native language film title, Juegos de Seducción, does not help its case at all. Arguably, it...

Years ago, when I lived alone, my neighbours were bonkers nocturnal drug addicts who never stopped banging on the walls for reasons I could never...

Typically, home-invasion thrillers have simple endings. The good guys win, or they don’t. Either way works. But Push, which is a home-invasion thriller for most...

If you’ve ever seen a buddy-cop movie, you’ll likely be able to predict the ending of Almost Cops after the first five minutes. I don’t...

Brick (2025) is a thriller set in an apartment complex in the city of Hamburg. A group of characters is trapped behind an impenetrable wall of...

It’s an unwritten rule that no Netflix movie can ever truly end. With streaming content being what it is, the possibility of a sequel must...

In a classic case of having one’s cake and eating it – never understood that expression; what else would you do with a cake? –...

The predetermined moment in the Ballerina ending is when Eve finally catches up to The Chancellor, an elusive man with an ideological worldview about the...

I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...

It was only when Esther checked Lucien’s fridge during the third act of Delicious that I realized the film’s plot twist. I was confused when...

The 2025 Indonesian romance The Most Beautiful Girl in the World keeps viewers on the edge of their seats, constantly questioning whether Reuben and Kiara...

Netflix’s animated spin-off The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is based on one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s most beloved short stories, “A Little Sacrifice”, from the...

Lucca’s World is an emotional film that certainly impacted me, but there’s a real story behind it. It’s based on Bárbara Anderson’s autobiographical book, “The...

The director, Matty Brown, wisely decided to reveal the secret at the end of The Sand Castle. This proves the point of the message on...

The Calendar Killer is not particularly clever, but that does not mean the ending is easily guessed. I did not work out the twist, which...

Ad Vitam isn’t a very good movie, and its ending helps to illuminate precisely why that is. After a stellar start and then an incredibly...

It’s obvious what the ending of The Love Scam will be ten minutes after pressing play. Depending on who you are and what you’re looking...

Number 24 (or known as Nr. 24) is a true World War Two story following Gunnar Sønsteby, a man that supported the Norway resistance against...