This article contains unavoidable spoilers for the movies listed.

An ending can make or break a movie. It’s not the be-all, but it is the end-all. A good ending for a good movie is pretty much expected, while a bad ending to an otherwise good movie can make you question just how good the movie itself really was . And then if there’s a movie you don’t really like, but the ending is great while also recontextualizing what came before, then such an ending can indeed be redemptive.

As for movies with unsatisfying endings? Such an ending isn't always a dealbreaker, because some movies tell stories that kind of need to leave things up in the air, with endings that are either ambiguous or just unresolved. The following all wade into that territory more than, say, Inception , and so if y

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