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<title>10 Best A24 Movie Endings of All Time, Ranked</title><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/10-best-a24-movie-endings-of-all-time-ranked.jpg"/><p>The independent movie-making studio A24 has become a mainstay at movie theaters and awards ceremonies over the last decade, crafting some of the most artistically interesting films of the last few years. From horror to drama to comedy to science fiction, A24 has become one of the most reliable studios for creating a variety of films with a range of tones that are sure to capture the attention of film fans everywhere.</p> <p>Because A24 films are independent movies with often fairly low budgets, they hang on dramatic performances, excellent cinematography, and captivating screenplays in order to keep audiences invested. Some of A24's best films also feature some of the best endings, as these movies understand that the quality of a narrative is only as good as its conclusion.</p> <h2>10                             Eighth Grade Ends With a Heartfelt Message to All Gen Z-ers                    </h2><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1_static1squarespacecom.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/eighth-grade.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Elsie-Fisher-As-Kayla-In-Eighth-Grade.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/eighth-grade.jpg"/><p>Stepping down from his career as a stand-up comedian after having been in the public eye since he went viral in the early days of YouTube, director <strong>Bo Burnham made his feature film debut with </strong><em><strong>Eighth Grade</strong>. </em>The film stars Elsie Fisher as Kayla Day, an eighth grader who is about to graduate middle school and <strong>constantly deals with the trials and tribulations of being a teenage girl in the modern era of social media</strong>.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Bo Burnham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>99%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Over the course of the movie, Kayla encounters a number of different social groups and classic teenage situations, struggling to understand where she fits in within a world that is constantly telling young women that they are not enough. The film ends with Kayla, slightly more sure of herself, recording a vlog in which she reassures her younger self that everything will eventually be OK.</p><h2>9                             Civil War Has a Shocking and Politically Charged Finale                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/civil-war-spotlight-032724-1-e2eefe560e964ba1ab0a5465a7ee9c19.jpg"/></div><p> Legendary science fiction and horror writer Alex Garland, whose work on films like <em>Sunshine, Dredd </em>and <em>28 Days Later</em> cemented him as one of the best writers of the last 20 years, has made several films for A24. His most recent film for them, the politically charged <em>Civil War</em>, follows a group of journalists as they attempt to make their way to Washington D.C. amidst a modern war breaking out on American soil.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Alex Garland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>81%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>One of the best A24 movies of 2024, <strong>Civil War captures the anxiety of modern warfare and the intensity of America's current political divisiveness in a fascinating way</strong>, culminating in a heart-pounding final siege on the White House that is among the most ambitious sequences in all of A24's filmography. The ending of the film, where Cailee Spaeny's photographer Jessie is able to capture the defining moment of the war, shows just how important the work of journalists can be.</p><h2>8                             Ex Machina Ends With a Bang                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ex-machina-movie.jpg"/></div><p>Alex Garland's directorial debut, and one of the earliest hit films for A24, <em>Ex Machina </em>builds on the ideas of classic science fiction films like <em>Westworld </em>and <em>Blade Runner </em>to <strong>tell an eerie story about the ethics of creating artificial intelligence</strong>. The movie centers around a programmer named Caleb Smith, played by Domhnall Gleeson, who is invited by the CEO of his company to test the efficacy of the android Ava's intelligence.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Alex Garland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>92%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>As the film progresses, Caleb discovers that Ava's existence is a kind of captivity and begins to fall in love with her, eventually helping her escape from her confinement where she kills the company CEO. But in a final twist, Ava leaves Caleb trapped in the remote facility, escaping into the real world alone and<strong> proving that her affection toward Caleb had been a manipulation the entire time</strong>.</p><h2>7                             The Lighthouse Ends as Off-Kilter as It Starts                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Robert-Pattinson-The-Lighthouse-Cropped.jpg"/></div><p>Director Robert Eggers, whose work on the excellent horror remake <em>Nosferatu </em>makes him one of the most consistently interesting filmmakers of the last decade, wowed audiences and critics with <strong>The Lighthouse, a part arthouse and part gothic horror drama about wickies in the 1890s</strong>. The film stars Robert Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow, a lighthouse keeper who slowly spirals as he remains trapped on an island with only the eccentric Thomas Wake, played by Willem Dafoe, for company.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Robert Eggers</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>90%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Pattinson delivers one of the best performances in A24 film, and of his career, in the film, as he slowly falls into hallucinations and greed. The end of the film, when Winslow finally looks directly into the light at the top of the house and falls to his demise, represents the <strong>futility of working-class people's attempts to claim something glorious</strong> that they will never achieve.</p><h2>6                             Lady Bird Ends With Melancholic Nostalgia                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/saoirse-ronan-lady-bird.jpg"/></div><p> Before her meteoric rise to the top of the box office with the 2023 juggernaut <em>Barbie</em>, Greta Gerwig kicked off her directorial career with a quiet and personal look at a young woman struggling to feel like her life is headed in a unique and profound direction. <strong>Lady Bird follows Saoirse Ronan as the titular character, an artsy teen in early 2000s Sacramento who desperately wants to go to college in New York City.</strong></p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Greta Gerwig</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>99%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>One of A24's best films, the movie captures the unique yearning of adolescence in an almost painfully true way, revealing just how much each of us desires to break free of our constraints when we are young. When Lady Bird calls her mother at the end of the film, having successfully made it to a college in New York but missing the comforts of home, <strong>the film poignantly captures how we all eventually long for family</strong>.</p><h2>5                             Moonlight Shows There Is Still Hope for Chiron                    </h2><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/moonlight-3.jpeg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/moonlight-2.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/moonlight.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/moonlight-anatomy-superJumbo.jpg"/><p>Arguably the greatest of the Best Picture-winning films of the 2010s, Barry Jenkins' phenomenal drama <strong>Moonlight tackles issues of class, race and sexual identity</strong> within a beautifully crafted framework. The movie is split into thirds, following the character of Chiron from early childhood to adolescence to young adulthood as he navigates life in Miami amidst crime and the crack epidemic.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Barry Jenkins</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>98%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>The film ends with Chiron, now an adult drug dealer in Miami, visiting his childhood friend Kevin, with whom he shared a defining sexual encounter as a teenager, at Kevin's restaurant in Miami. Chiron, feeling comfortable and vulnerable, admits to Kevin that he has never been intimate with anyone else, <strong>finally allowing himself to be open to another person and recall the innocent child he once was</strong>.</p><h2>4                             Hereditary Has a Shockingly Supernatural Ending                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/king-paimon-peter-hereditary-ending.jpg"/></div><p> Quite possibly the scariest movie of the 21st Century, Ari Aster's disturbing <strong>Hereditary shocked audiences with its grotesque imagery and unflinchingly raw depiction of grief</strong>. The movie stars Toni Colette as Annie Graham, a miniature artist whose mother and daughter die very close together, causing her to look into her mother's past with supernatural forces for answers.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Ari Aster</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>90%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Collette's performance and the film's constantly foreboding atmosphere make the movie one of the most tense and frightening of all time, culminating in the movie's surprisingly supernatural ending. When it is revealed that Annie's mother was part of a coven that worships a demon God, and Annie's son Peter is the target of the coven's witchcraft, <strong>the final stretch of the film becomes a disturbingly ghastly tale</strong>.</p><h2>3                             Past Lives Ends When All the Emotions Have Finally Hit                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pastlivesstreet.jpg"/></div><p> One of A24's films that is perfect from start to finish, Celine Song's directorial debut, <strong>Past Lives, is a quiet story about how entire worlds can change with just the smallest decision</strong>, like moving from South Korea to Canada as a child. This is exactly what has happened to Nora Moon, played by Greta Lee, who reconnects with a childhood first love when he comes to visit her and her husband in New York City.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Celine Song</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>95%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>After an emotionally turbulent visit, where Nora realizes that her old childhood friend is having a difficult time with his life and reflecting on what things might have been like if she had stayed in South Korea, Nora finally allows herself to feel all of her held-in emotions. When Nora walks back to the stairs of her apartment to see her husband, who is waiting for her and ready to help her through her complicated feelings, <strong>Celine Song perfectly encompasses the feelings of adulthood</strong>.</p><h2>2                             Beau Is Afraid's Final Scene Puts the Character on Trial                    </h2><div><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/thumb_094c6abf-8412-47cb-8261-fa4390269f1a-cropped.jpg"/></div><p> Following up two critically acclaimed horror films, director Ari Aster tried his hand at the more <strong>comedy-forward satire film Beau Is Afraid in 2023</strong>. Though the movie was met with a tepid response from critics, citing that the film was too bloated and overstuffed for its own good, the beginning and ending of the film are highly regarded, as is Joaquin Phoenix's performance as the incredibly anxious Beau.</p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Ari Aster</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>67%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>The film follows Beau in his harrowing journey from his apartment in a crime-infested city to the estate of his mother, who he believes to have recently died. When Beau arrives at the end of the film and learns that his mother is not dead, and has been spying on him the entire film, <strong>Beau is put on trial and forced to defend himself against a demanding mother who has constantly belittled him</strong>.</p><h2>1                             I Saw the TV Glow Has One of the Most Gut-Wrenching Endings Ever                    </h2><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/i-saw-the-tv-glow-trailer.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mixcollage-11-jun-2024-09-31-am-6050.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mixcollage-11-jun-2024-09-33-am-8626.jpg"/><img class="contentimg" src="https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mixcollage-11-jun-2024-09-33-am-2349.jpg"/><p>Drawing inspiration from everything from <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer </em>to the late great David Lynch, Jane Schoenbrun's fantastic <strong>I Saw the TV Glow is one of the best films of 2024</strong>. The movie follows a young man named Owen, played by Justice Smith, as he struggles to confront issues of personal identity and self-worth and falls into a deep obsession with a television show called <em>The Pink Opaque.</em></p> <div><table align="" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="" summary=""><tbody><tr><th scope="row">Directed by:</th><td>Jane Schoenbrun</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Starring:</th><td>Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Helena Howard</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Rotten Tomatoes Score:</th><td>84%</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>The film acts primarily as an allegory for gender dysphoria and the fear of remaining closeted for one's entire life, in which Owen represents a person who has decided not to explore their own identity for fear that it is too painful or terrifying. When the film ends with a middle-aged Owen having a screaming breakdown at work that his co-workers ignore, <strong>I Saw the TV Glow cements its themes of the inner pain caused by hiding your true self from the world</strong>.</p>