The End (2024)

"There’s a thin line between kindness and complicity, and “The End” achieves its sneakily immense power by dancing all over it..."

"An admirable if uneven endeavor."

"What remains engaging throughout are the carefully textured performances... and the film’s myriad aesthetic graces."

"Oppenheimer’s strange and ambitious deconstruction of human behaviour... can also be draining. Maybe that’s intentional."

"A cult movie that, until it eventually finds its cult, will be more admired than loved."

"Uncompromising..."

"There may never be another film like The End, and that alone makes it special..."

"A bold swing, and I’m glad it exists. But for all the stuff it throws at us, the film is frustratingly, wearingly one-note."

"It’s a long sigh, an off-key parody song performed before humanity’s curtain call."

"Mostly admirable for its ambition, which often feels nearly endless – as, alas, does the film itself."