The End

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The End

R

Released Dec 6, 2024

2h 28m

Musical

Drama

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life--until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble, with long-repressed feelings of remorse and resentment threatening to destroy the family's delicate balance. But their reckoning with difficult truths also points to a different way forward, one based on acceptance, love, and a capacity for change.

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Critics Consensus

The End doesn't lack for ambition or talent, but its bold vision is ill-served by a bloated runtime and monotonous musical score.

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

Slapping the audience around the head with 149 minutes of awfulness is a provocative political gesture but it’s empty, too, in The End.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 29, 2025

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

The performances sing with or without music, the cast sharp as sushi knives.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 28, 2025

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Its persuasive, unsettling intelligence will get under your fingernails and into your bones. If any recent release has the potential to become a cult classic it is this melodic warning from beneath the earth.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 28, 2025

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India Lewis

The Arts Desk

This is a film that feels as though it will go on to win plaudits, but for me, there is something not fully cohesive about it as a whole...

Rated: 4/5

Mar 28, 2025

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Steve Crum

Crum on Showbiz

If Tilda Swinton speaking a sorrowful lyric like ‘each day is like the last’ entertains you, ‘The End’ might be your tea cup.

Rated: C-

Mar 27, 2025

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Hilary A White

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

To be grappling with themes of expiry, human rights and planetary collapse...is certainly novel, but pegging this against a post-apocalyptic setup might be too much of a tonal stretch for some viewers.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 26, 2025

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Dora

Confusing, and didn’t really see how the musical aspect of it was important? Great concept though.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/19/24

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John C

Dear god. Stay far far away.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/17/24

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Max

Woof, I wanted to like this movie so bad, but the singing and characters were not connecting for me.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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Andy W

Watched tonight at the Picturehouse Central in London with a Q&A afterwards with the director and star George Mackay. No-one asked the obvious question… WHY? What this nonsense was about… what purpose it served will forever remain a mystery to me… banal overlong and laughable… literally my first ever film review… THIS IS THE WORSE FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/28/25

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Ter W

A wonderful and profound film. A true masterpiece and a work of art!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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Jerod S

Weird AF. Can you really live in a salt mine? I get the underlying story - but sometimes it's good to just say something rather than bury it under so many layers of weird.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/21/25

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Synopsis

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life--until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble, with long-repressed feelings of remorse and resentment threatening to destroy the family's delicate balance. But their reckoning with difficult truths also points to a different way forward, one based on acceptance, love, and a capacity for change.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Tilda Swinton, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Screenwriter: Rasmus Heisterberg, Joshua Oppenheimer
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Final Cut for Real, The Match Factory, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Dorje Film, Moonspun Films , Anagram Sweden
Rating: R (Some Language)
Genre: Musical, Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 6, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $137.3K
Runtime: 2h 28m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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