Michael Phillips: Here’s the big reveal: Movie endings are hard to get right, and not just in ‘Don’t Worry Darling’

Near the end of last weekend’s most popular theatrical release, “Don’t Worry Darling,” the perfect 1950s homemaker played by Florence Pugh finally begins to piece together the insidious puzzle of her life. She’s living inside the confines of her marriage to a rising young executive (Harry Styles) as part of the larger, fastidiously planned desert community of Victory, California, a company town with a cryptic corporate mission.

We know something’s off from the beginning. Screenwriter Katie Silberman, who rewrote an existing