‘It Ends’ Review: A Brilliant, Existential Road Thriller for and by Gen Z

‘It Ends’ Review: A Brilliant, Existential Road Thriller for and by Gen Z

In Alexander Ullom’s “It Ends,” four friends fresh out of college find themselves on a road with no exits. It’s Jean-Paul Sartre with a Gen Z spin, a hangout horror movie rife with existential anxieties that cinema and television have been wrestling with since their inception — from Luis Buñuel to “The Good Place” — and which philosophers have pondered for much longer. That said, don’t let the familiarity of its premise fool you. It’s first and …

‘It Ends’ Review: Four College Grads Find Themselves on a Long Road to Nowhere in Promising but Underdeveloped Indie Horror Movie

SXSW: Alexander Ullom's clever debut feature aspires to be a Gen Z riff on Sartre, but its journey isn't always worth its lack of a destination.

SXSW 2025 Review: IT ENDS, Angst and Fear on the Endless Road to Adulthood

A quartet of twenty-something friends out for a drive find themselves on a road to nowhere in first time feature director Alexander Ullom’s meditative sci-fi thriller, It Ends, premiering this week at the SXSW Film & TV Festival. Headstrong James (Phinehas Yoon), snarky Day (Akira Jackson), uptight Fisher (Noah Toth), and the pragmatic Tyler (Mitchell Cole) are heading out for a celebratory last meal as close compatriots before their impending a…

Alexander Ullom's "It Ends" - SXSW 2025 Film Review

A road to nowhere leads to fascinating places in this wildly original and well-crafted existential thriller. The post SXSW 2025 Review: Hell is Other People in Alexander Ullom’s Exhilarating “It Ends” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.