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The 25 Best Movie Endings of All Time (According to Mental Floss)

We've all had the same feeling. You're watching a good movie, everything is moving forward exactly the way you feel it should, and then the ending comes and it just doesn't land. Plenty of great stories have been derailed by lackluster endings, or endings that simply chicken out on the bold promises the rest of the film made to its audience. The 25 movies below, thankfully, are not those stories. These are the ones that got it right, whether we realized it upon first viewing or not. Here are our picks for 25 of the greatest movie endings of all time (in chronological order).
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from mentalfloss.com · made by Brianna Blake
avg. score: 13 of 25 (52%)
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
2
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
3
Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
4
The Apartment (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
5
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
6
The Graduate (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
7
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
8
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
9
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
10
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
11
Chinatown (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
12
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
13
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
14
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
15
The Thing (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
16
The Vanishing (1988)
The Vanishing (1988)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
17
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
18
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
19
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
20
Fargo (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
21
Big Night (1996)
Big Night (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
22
American Psycho (2000)
American Psycho (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes®   69%
23
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
24
Lost in Translation (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
25
Moonlight (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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