10 Brilliant Movie Endings That Give You The Finger

Martin Scorsese's latest modern classic - which tells the shocking true story of how some powerful white Americans systematically murdered Native Americans in order to steal their land and oil - judges audiences at the very end, and it does so in a particularly clever way. Once the film's story properly concludes, we don't get the usual epilogue of title cards explaining what happened next. We get something far more haunting. 

After a final confrontation between Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) and her husband Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has been complicit in the murders (the victims of which include members of Mollie's family) the film abruptly jumps ahead to a cheap 1950s radio show which conveys the aftermath of the murders in a flippant, sensationalized manner. 

This was a smart way for Scorsese and co to critique the public indifference to the crimes against the Osage Tribe, as well as the inherent limitation that art like Killers, even with the best intentions, has when it comes to relaying the horror of what happened through an entertainment medium. After all, before this movie came out it's likely many had never even heard of these murders, which is pretty telling. Scorsese hammered home this message by cameoing as one of the radio presenters, delivering a haunting eulogy to Mollie which reveals that, once she died of natural causes, her obituaries made no mention of the murders. 

This is a strong contender for the best movie ending of Martin Scorsese's career, and that is really saying something.