FilmCritic.com's Top 50 Movie Endings

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"I’ve seen Chinatown a dozen times, and while it’s a great movie, two specific things about it stick in my mind: Jack Nicholson’s bandaged nose and the final line of dialogue. Acting, directing, a great script… these are essential to any film. But a classic ending, now that can really make a movie."

  1. 2.
    Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

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  2. 3.
    Chinatown

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  3. 4.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  4. 5.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  5. 6.
    Boogie Nights
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

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  6. 7.
    Night of the Living Dead
    by Tom Savini

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  7. 8.
    Big Night
    by Campbell Scott

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  8. 9.
    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg

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  9. 10.
    Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  10. 11.
    The Graduate
    by Mike Nichols

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  11. 12.
    The Birds (Collector's Edition)

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  12. 13.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  13. 14.
    The Tenant
    by Roman Polanski

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  14. 15.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  16. 17.
    Planet of the Apes
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  17. 18.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by Victor Fleming

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  18. 19.
    Memento

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  19. 20.
    Before Sunset
    by Richard Linklater

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  20. 21.
    The Usual Suspects
    by Bryan Singer

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  21. 22.
    Brazil

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  22. 23.
    House of Games
    by David Mamet

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  23. 24.
    The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
    by Edward F. Cline

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  24. 25.
    Real Genius
    by Martha Coolidge

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  25. 26.
    Rushmore
    by Wes Anderson

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  26. 27.
    The Searchers
    by John Ford

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  27. 28.
    Hannah and Her Sisters

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  28. 29.
    Wait Until Dark
    by Terence Young

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  29. 30.
    Pickpocket - Criterion Collection

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  30. 31.
    Magnolia
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

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  31. 32.
    Being There

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  32. 33.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  33. 34.
    King of New York
    by Abel Ferrara

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  34. 35.
    Back to the Future
    by Robert Zemeckis

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  35. 36.
    Jacob's Ladder
    by Adrian Lyne

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  36. 37.
    Rocky

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  37. 38.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  38. 39.
    The Silence of the Lambs
    by Jonathan Demme

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  39. 40.
    The Thing (Collector's Edition)

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  40. 41.
    Say Anything

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  41. 42.
    The Terminator
    by James Cameron

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  42. 43.
    Shane

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  43. 44.
    Fargo
    by Joel Coen

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  44. 45.
    Pulp Fiction

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  45. 46.
    Dead Again

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  46. 47.
    All That Jazz

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  47. 48.
    Batman Begins (Full Screen Edition)
    by Christopher Nolan

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  48. 49.
    A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Cronenberg

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  49. 50.
    The Blair Witch Project
    by Daniel Myrick

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Comments

Greg
Columbus

The Graduate's ending... — 2 years ago

is the WORST thing about THE GRADUATE. I never really get the feeling Hoffman’s character actually CARES about Mrs. Robinson’s daughter. I never get a good reason as to why they’re really together at all. I’ve always thought THE GRADUATE to be thoroughly overrated anyway. I like Hoffman, but I just don’t think GRADUATE’s a good film.