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The Art Of Ending Things

  1. it’s coming
    Harrison Ford Didn’t Do ItOr did he? The joy of watching the actor in erotic thrillers like Presumed Innocent is in the way he can keep us guessing how bad he really is.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    What Makes Viewers ‘Tune In Next Week"?Veteran TV writers share how they craft cliffhanger endings for everything from comedies to soaps to docuseries.
    By Jen Chaney
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    How I Learned to Love Dying (in Hades)An appreciation of death in the time of quarantine.
    By E. Alex Jung
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    The Greatest Godfather Ending of Them AllCoppola closed his trilogy with a grandiose, explosive ending that works not just as a finale to a single film, but to the entire series.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    There Are Only Two Types of Musical Endings That MatterCan you tell we really miss Broadway?
    By Rebecca Alter
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    Why the End of Atonement Is a Triumph for Unreliable NarratorsWhen Ian McEwan’s book came out, the final twist infuriated many readers. Twenty years later, it’s a classic of the form.
    By Hillary Kelly
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    No, They Weren’t Dead the Whole TimeAn oral history of Lost’s daring, divisive finale, our last truly communal broadcast TV experience
    By Jen Chaney
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    A Brief History of the Alternate Movie Endings Lost to TimeThat is, until a few of them made their way onto DVDs as bonus material.
    By Jason Bailey
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    How The Descent Ended Up With Two Famously Bleak EndingsWriter-director Neil Marshall breaks down his horror film’s alternate conclusions — and which one he thinks is the worse fate.
    By Rachel Handler
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    8 Comedians Break Down Their Favorite Stand-up Closer EverFeaturing jokes by Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford, Dave Chappelle, and more.
    By Dan Reilly
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    Every Movie Should End in Song and DanceTo watch the finest of musical finales is to become convinced, however briefly, that every movie should resolve this way.
    By Alison Willmore
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    JP Saxe Didn’t Mean for Grammy Hit ‘If the World Was Ending’ to Be So Literal“[Julia Michaels and I] started getting a lot of messages on Twitter accusing us of insider information.”
    By Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan
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    The 101 Greatest Endings in Movies HistoryGood finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether.
    By Alison Willmore, Angelica Jade Bastién, and Bilge Ebiri