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I genuinely feared The End would never end

The musical numbers in Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic movie are delivered, for the most part, atonally

Deborah Ross
Tilda Swinton as Mother in The End © FELIXDICKINSON NEON
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 29 March 2025
issue 29 March 2025

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a ‘post-apocalyptic musical’ starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon that is being sold as a ‘bold vision’. And as you know I’m all for bold visions – except perhaps ones that go on for two and a half hours (I genuinely feared The End would never end) and give the impression throughout of being like a premise in search of a story.

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