The Best Endings, and the Worst

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By Newsweek Editors

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Say what you will about how "The Sopranos" ended—and people are still giving us an earful—it got us thinking about what makes a good ending to a story … and a bad ending. So in the time it takes to say "happily ever after," we began assembling lists of good endings for movies, television series and books, and some bad ones. Curiously, it was much harder to think of bad endings—remember, we're not talking about all good or all bad movies, books or shows—that's a list for another day. No, the trick here is to name works of art that end memorably, one way or the other.

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