This Collider feature ranks the ten greatest endings in film history, arguing that a truly great film must stick the landing rather than simply wrap up neatly, and highlights examples that leave a lasting emotional or thematic impact on audiences. The piece frames memorable endings as ones that feel earned, closing out a story's themes rather than just its plot, and notes that many have gone on to influence other filmmakers.

Among the entries discussed are Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979), praised for its surreal, musical-numbers finale in which the dying protagonist Joe Gideon confronts mortality through a glitzy fantasy sequence before a stark cut to reality, and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942), noted for Rick Blaine's self-sacrificing farewell to Ilsa Lund and the enduring line "We'll always have Paris." The article's discussion of the remaining eight films in the countdown was not included in the supplied text.