A movie is only as good as its ending. At the very least, that’s certainly how it can feel right after you finish watching one. Of course, each film demands a different kind of finale, and it would be futile to try and generically describe what makes for a “good” one — you know one when you see it. Some stories are best served by ending with a jarring twist that makes you reconsider everything you’ve seen before it. Others require the perfect note of ambiguity, or that immortal line of dialogue to help seal the deal. Every great film ends on its own terms, but all of them do so in a way that ultimately makes the whole experience impossible to forget. Here are the 20 best movie endings of the 21st Century.
Note: Needless to say, there’s a five-alarm spoiler alert in effect for the rest of this article.
Note: Needless to say, there’s a five-alarm spoiler alert in effect for the rest of this article.
- 8/18/2017
- by David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Michael Nordine, Chris O'Falt and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In 2004, Fisher Stevens went to Ohio with a coalition of artists to help John Kerry get elected president. It didn’t work, but Stevens — an actor-turned-director best known for campy roles in a string of ’80s and ’90s films such as “Short Circuit” and “Hackers” — emerged a changed man. “It was a fucked-up time,” Stevens recalled over lunch near his offices in downtown Manhattan, “but this a whole other fucked-up time.”
Flash forward a dozen years and Stevens is enmeshed in a new stage of his career, as a prolific documentarian who moonlights as an actor. Six years ago, he won an Oscar as a co-producer of “The Cove,” photographer-turned-filmmaker Louie Psihoyos’ thrilling exposé of the Japanese fishing industry. By then, he had stepped away from GreeneStreet Films, the independent production company he started in 1996 with John Penotti. That same year, Stevens launched Insurgent Media with Andrew Kirsch and Erik Gordon...
Flash forward a dozen years and Stevens is enmeshed in a new stage of his career, as a prolific documentarian who moonlights as an actor. Six years ago, he won an Oscar as a co-producer of “The Cove,” photographer-turned-filmmaker Louie Psihoyos’ thrilling exposé of the Japanese fishing industry. By then, he had stepped away from GreeneStreet Films, the independent production company he started in 1996 with John Penotti. That same year, Stevens launched Insurgent Media with Andrew Kirsch and Erik Gordon...
- 11/8/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
New York — Linda Pugach (Pooh'-gash), who was blinded in 1959 when her lover hired hit men to throw lye in her face – and became a media sensation after later marrying him – has died in New York City. She was 75.
The 2007 documentary "Crazy Love" details the infamous New York City crime.
Her husband, Burton, says his wife died Tuesday at a hospital in Queens. The cause was heart failure.
Burton Pugach served 14 years in prison for hiring the thugs to attack his then-girlfriend Linda Riss after she spurned him. He was married at the time.
After his release, Pugach divorced his first wife and convinced Riss to marry him in 1974.
He told The Associated Press Thursday that theirs was a "fairy tale romance."...
The 2007 documentary "Crazy Love" details the infamous New York City crime.
Her husband, Burton, says his wife died Tuesday at a hospital in Queens. The cause was heart failure.
Burton Pugach served 14 years in prison for hiring the thugs to attack his then-girlfriend Linda Riss after she spurned him. He was married at the time.
After his release, Pugach divorced his first wife and convinced Riss to marry him in 1974.
He told The Associated Press Thursday that theirs was a "fairy tale romance."...
- 1/24/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
After doing the rounds on VoD for a few weeks, where many of you will have seen it, Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" starts to roll out in theaters from tomorrow, and we can't recommend it enough; it's a messy, sometimes frustrating film, but a deeply felt, beautifully made and wonderfully acted one, and we named it last week as one of the best of the year so far. It is not, however, recommended as a date movie, fitting into a long cinematic tradition of painful examinations of broken, decaying, collapsing or dead relationships.
After all, it's one of the more universal human experiences; unless you get very lucky, everyone who falls in love will at some point have the wrenching experience of falling out of it, or being fallen out of love with. And when done best in film, it can be bruising and borderline torturous for a filmmaker and an audience,...
After all, it's one of the more universal human experiences; unless you get very lucky, everyone who falls in love will at some point have the wrenching experience of falling out of it, or being fallen out of love with. And when done best in film, it can be bruising and borderline torturous for a filmmaker and an audience,...
- 6/28/2012
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Valentine’s Day is the time to show that special someone how much you care by lavishing them with gifts! Or it’s that irksome time of year where every business exploits the promise of love and romance to sell you candy, flowers, jewelry, and bow tie-wearing bears. This holiday is at once a day of sincerity and cynicism.
It’s truly a magical time.
No matter which side of the Vday divide you fall, we’ve got some choice movie picks whether you’re a love lover or a holiday hater.
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For Those Who Love Love
Want something sweet to screen this Valentine’s Day?
Here’s a list of spectacular flicks that prove once and for all that love conquers all!
Love Actually {2003}
Rom-com master Richard Curtis’ Christmas-set ensemble piece weaves together various feel-good tales (for the most part) that reveal the various ways of love. Full of beloved actors,...
It’s truly a magical time.
No matter which side of the Vday divide you fall, we’ve got some choice movie picks whether you’re a love lover or a holiday hater.
————
For Those Who Love Love
Want something sweet to screen this Valentine’s Day?
Here’s a list of spectacular flicks that prove once and for all that love conquers all!
Love Actually {2003}
Rom-com master Richard Curtis’ Christmas-set ensemble piece weaves together various feel-good tales (for the most part) that reveal the various ways of love. Full of beloved actors,...
- 2/11/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
A $15 million lawsuit against award-winning director Dan Klores over his documentary "Crazy Love," filed by its two stars, has been tossed out by a Queens Supreme Court judge. Disbarred lawyer Burt Pugach and Linda Riss, who married Pugach after he spent 14 years in jail for blinding her with acid, had accused Klores of falsely enticing them into signing over the rights to their story. "We are pleased, but we are not surprised" by the dismissal, said Klores' lawyer, Mathew Rosengart. But Pugach vows to appeal.
- 3/1/2009
- NYPost.com
- In an era where Joey Budafucco is now engaged to Amy Fischer and Mary K. Laturno is now married to the boy who fathered her child at venerable age of 12, it should come as little surprise that Linda Riss is married to Burt Pugach, the man who hired hit men to throw acid in her face more than forty years ago. It was a crime inspired by passionate jealousy after all. Dan Klores’s (Ring of Fire) new documentary Crazy Love, flows chronologically and hits all the standard interviews from friends and family who appear more than eager to comment. It’s not hard to see why a man like Burt Pugach is screwed up. The beginning of the film deals with his traumatic childhood, which included regular beatings and berating from his possessive mother. Driven into a possessive mentality Burt became a prominent negligence lawyer amassing large amounts of wealth,
- 6/1/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- Some couples can’t get enough of one another. Let’s just say that this upcoming June doc tests those limits. When I was first flipping through the film selections offered in this year’s Sundance fest guide, I remembered reading the passage to this Dan Klores' doc and thinking... is this a real life version of the kind of mangled and abusive relationship found in Scorsese’s Raging Bull? The B&W feature saw Cathy Moriarty to as the abused wife to Bobby DeNiro’s interpretation of Jake Lamotta. Comparisons to the age difference older male/young female, the time period and to the setting (The Bronx) are perhaps what made me think this in the first place. Today, we have the exclusive first look at the poster one sheet. Magnolia Pictures will release the documentary film on June 1st. Hoping to repeat the profitability and popularity
- 4/17/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
PARK CITY -- The dropping temperatures at the Sundance Film Festival seem to be tempering the acquisition fever that usually accompanies the annual Utah confab. While acquisition executives are looking at a healthy number of films premiering at the event, no one title has sent any firm into an unreasonable bidding war.
That being said, a number of titles have been sold or are in the process of being sold to a wide array of distributors.
Although opening-weekend deals didn't reach the stratospheric heights of last year's $10.6 million price tag for Little Miss Sunshine or the $6 million sale of The Science of Sleep, or 2005's Hustle & Flow, which went for $9 million, they still retained some of the late-night negotiating hustle that has become a Sundance staple.
James C. Strouse's John Cusack starrer Grace Is Gone lived up to its prefest buzz, luring the likes of the Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics into an all-night bidding war. The Weinstein Co. nabbed worldwide rights to the movie for $4 million, closing the sale at 4:30 a.m. in co-seller Cinetic Media's Deer Valley condo.
Dan Klores' documentary Crazy Love marked the first sale of the festival, fetching mid-six figures from Magnolia Pictures for North American rights excluding television. The film tells the bizarre, half-century love story of Burt and Linda Pugach, a New York couple who got married decades after Burt spent years in jail for blinding Linda.
Negotiations also heated up Sunday afternoon on the George Ratcliff-directed Joshua, with multiple parties entering the talks. Fox Searchlight was among several distributors vying for the psychological thriller, which centers on a precocious child who wreaks havoc on his family. Although the deal hadn't closed by press time, Searchlight is almost certain to be the buyer. UTA and attorney Andrew Hurwitz are co-selling the project.
Despite repeated denials that they were buying the feature, sources said late Sunday that the Weinstein Co.
That being said, a number of titles have been sold or are in the process of being sold to a wide array of distributors.
Although opening-weekend deals didn't reach the stratospheric heights of last year's $10.6 million price tag for Little Miss Sunshine or the $6 million sale of The Science of Sleep, or 2005's Hustle & Flow, which went for $9 million, they still retained some of the late-night negotiating hustle that has become a Sundance staple.
James C. Strouse's John Cusack starrer Grace Is Gone lived up to its prefest buzz, luring the likes of the Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures Classics into an all-night bidding war. The Weinstein Co. nabbed worldwide rights to the movie for $4 million, closing the sale at 4:30 a.m. in co-seller Cinetic Media's Deer Valley condo.
Dan Klores' documentary Crazy Love marked the first sale of the festival, fetching mid-six figures from Magnolia Pictures for North American rights excluding television. The film tells the bizarre, half-century love story of Burt and Linda Pugach, a New York couple who got married decades after Burt spent years in jail for blinding Linda.
Negotiations also heated up Sunday afternoon on the George Ratcliff-directed Joshua, with multiple parties entering the talks. Fox Searchlight was among several distributors vying for the psychological thriller, which centers on a precocious child who wreaks havoc on his family. Although the deal hadn't closed by press time, Searchlight is almost certain to be the buyer. UTA and attorney Andrew Hurwitz are co-selling the project.
Despite repeated denials that they were buying the feature, sources said late Sunday that the Weinstein Co.
- 1/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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