How It Ends

Name: How It Ends
Director: Daryl Wein
Released: 2021

2021

Synopsis

A woman scores an invite to one last wild party before the world ends. However, making it there won't be easy after her car is stolen and the clock is ticking on her plan to tie up loose ends with friends and family.

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IndieWire
The pandemic spawned plenty of run-and-gun projects. Many of them chart the circumstances that made them possible, but Wein and Lister-Jones’ winsome spin on a well-trod concept is as fresh and funny as anything inspired by the last few wretched months.
82
TheWrap
it’s an endearing Sundance bonbon: quirky but not annoying, charming but not cloying, slight but in a good way.
79
Polygon
It’s a pleasant enough hangout movie, and someday it may be held up as a slanted portrait of what mid-2020 felt like for people privileged enough to ignore politics. But it still feels like a minor movie in the face of a major catastrophe.
70
Film Threat
Yes, it was made during the pandemic, and the storyline serves as a metaphor for our current feelings and experiences, but it doesn’t use the pandemic as a tool to directly prey on our anxieties. It’s a bit more thoughtful and reflective than that. This drama gives us the green light to sit back and say, no matter when the end might be, perhaps we did just fine with our time here.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
It's more breezy than bittersweet, more about acceptance and forgiveness than a movie made in 2020 has any right to be.
70
Slashfilm
Underneath all the jokes and humorous moments, the movie is fundamentally about how important it is to love yourself – and about how something so seemingly simple can sometimes be incredibly difficult.
63
Slant Magazine
The film is so economical in its momentum, and its tone of comic wistfulness so uniform, that its string of tableaux rarely feels jerky.
58
The Film Stage
You need some urgency and momentum to carry a movie like this. The incoming armageddon, occasionally seen as a small CGI blip in the blue sky, doesn’t have it. But as the day ends, Lister-Jones and Spaeny have enough chemistry to supply the real drama.