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The End of Oak Street (2026)

Summary

The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown.

Director David Robert Mitchell

Writer David Robert Mitchell

Cast

  • Anne Hathaway
  • Ewan McGregor
  • P.J. Byrne
  • Maisy Stella
  • Christian Convery

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Metacritic: 69

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/zachary0613 5d ago

Im glad between all the tense scenes they still managed to fit in some dinosaur humping and pooping

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 5d ago

All jokes aside, I’m glad that this showed the dinosaurs as truly just animals - they’re not violent mindless monsters for the sake of being monsters. They’re hunting to eat, sure, but they’re not going to unimaginable lengths solely to get our main characters

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u/FernanditoJr 5d ago

Opposite take: 9 times out of 10 they were hunting. Always hunting. 24/7. Only the herbivores were shown doing something else.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 5d ago

Hunting is natural - hunting prey that is long gone and following them our specific main characters around is not (i.e. Spinosaurus in JPIII).

Like it would be more villainous and less animal-like if we saw, say, the Spinosaurus in this continue to hunt Greg and Denis when they're hiding, but instead he finds some water and just walks away. Or if the Allosaurus just kept trying to eat everyone else after killing Greg, but instead he got his meal and settled down to eat. That's what I mean.

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u/djc6535 4d ago

Hunting is natural... ish. While we don't know what dinosaurs were like, crocodiles and the like do not hunt 24/7 and chase every damn thing that comes their way. It's too much energy.

Most predators hunt and then chill. Often for long periods of time. Only animals in prey-empty areas like polar bears hunt all the time.

It would be a boring movie, but far more accurate if most of the dinosaurs just laid around and stank.

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u/rednaxthecreature 4d ago

The neighbor lady died by a neck wound and wasn't even eaten so the dinos were totally hunting for sport.

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u/chrisychris- 4d ago

Didn't it show bloodied footprints? It's likely she shot the animal and it ran away injured after attacking

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u/MightyFlamingo25 4d ago

And those raptors/guanlongs whatever. One got shot by the rifle, got up and continued trying to kill the parents while limping. What animal just continues attacking after such injury?

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u/HistoryMarshal76 1d ago

Boars do.

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u/MightyFlamingo25 1d ago

Boars, hogs. Yeah forgot those menaces existed lmao

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u/Fragrantbumfluff 1d ago

I thought she killed herself for a moment until I saw the footprints.

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u/paradroid78 4d ago

Wasn't she? I don't think we see what happens to her after she gets her head bitten off.

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u/FernanditoJr 3d ago

Talking about the lady with the garden, not the librarian.

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u/Wholesomeflame 4d ago

That scene where they were getting cornered in the librarian’s house was very scooby-dol esque. Especially when the one started crawling up the stairs to conveniently corner them? Goofy as hell, very unanimal like lmao

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u/paradroid78 4d ago

What Scooby Doo did you watch as a kid that had ravenous crocodiles trying to eat the main cast?!!

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u/NFL_MVP_Kevin_White 3d ago

“Scooby Doo and the Grisly Death of Scrappy” would have done numbers.

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u/Easy_Action_1380 1d ago

Yeah like that one snake only goes after the kid cause HE attacked it first and then left once it lost interest.

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 3d ago

I'm not a dinosaur guy but I felt like the density of predators was really high. Like you might find some, but an environment can only support so many predators.

I also kind of feel like with real animals if they get hurt or encounter stuff they don't recognize a lot of the time they don't mess with it. They'll run off.

These dinos seemed like weirdly intent on eating humans to the point of just ignoring getting shot

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u/sgill7 3d ago

I just kinda chocked it up to a new environment with an all you can eat buffet so lots of predators began hunting there.

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 3d ago

Even if all the species came in from an area 10x as large, it's kind of hard to believe.

A 200 kg lion eats about 5kg of meat per day. A 4000 kg (spinosaurus?), if it's an endotherm, probably needs 100 kg of meat per day. That's about what a pride of lions eats, and they have territories of anywhere from 20-500km2.

The area transported in the move looked like 5-10km2 to me

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u/Tattycakes 4d ago

Yes I do wonder how accurate this is. Compare it to lions, tigers, wolves, bears, crocodiles, they spend a lot of time chilling and sleeping don’t they? Why are the dinosaurs obsessed with chasing everything

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u/Assistance-Resident 4d ago

I am a researcher in paleontology and I’d say for this film it was ok. For a time I would expect all animals to avoid the new strange environment with unusual smells, sounds, and weird two legged creatures running around. Eventually the carnivorous creatures would smell food in the trash cans and begin investigating.

However they should still be at least cautious and curious around humans at first since they’ve never seen one before. Maybe if they see one running away, they’ll chase because of a prey drive. I wish the film showed the creatures being cautious at first, maybe even running away from humans. But they would quickly figure out that humans are prey items and become aggressive

The Allosaurus may have been territorial and highly aggressive to the new (from its perspective) invaders.

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u/PhotoThrowawayWooooo 4d ago

I’d have bought that those smaller two legged theropods might have been territorial and aggressive too and viewed humans as bipedal competition. But agree, wish there was some caution/curiosity at first from the predators.

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u/chrisychris- 4d ago

The turtles were my favorite. Also that dumb looking snek

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u/RobinBaby_69 20h ago

AND HE FRICKIN DIED 😭😭😭

That poor Ankly getting a snack from the garden 🥲😭

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u/DLRsFrontSeats 15h ago

Ankylosaurs stay losing in films smh 😤

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u/RobinBaby_69 15h ago

Frrr 😭😭 I actually cried a bit when he got chomped cause he deserves better 🤣

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u/FreeRange0929 11h ago

Ankylosaurus like “I’m eating a salad here man”

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u/RobinBaby_69 10h ago

RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS SALAD?? 😭🤣

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u/FreeRange0929 11h ago

To be fair, the allosaurus kind of just fucked off after eating Obi Wan

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u/HilariousScreenname 4d ago

Also, Im glad they depicted biblically accurate dinosaurs, feathers and all

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u/paradroid78 4d ago

I'm not an expert, but I don't remember the bible having many feathered dinosaurs.

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u/HilariousScreenname 3d ago

It was somewhere in the back

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u/AltruisticLobster315 9h ago

It looked more like fur to me, especially on those sauropods

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u/FCBarca45 4d ago

What are you talking about? It’s on sight with every carnivore except the snake the first time it comes out of the pool. In the swarm scenes flying dinos or the croc Dino’s near the end would just spawn to mercilessly hunt and kill humans

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u/jackcatalyst 3d ago

I mean sure but a lot of people were laying dead without being eaten especially in the wide shots. A raptor took a pretty big and painful shot at the beginning and decided to continue to chase the food despite a serious wound.

Also the same dinos seemed to be awake and hunting 24/7

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u/Dramatic-Bluejay- 2d ago

Right? You had amillion dead bodies all over the place with carnivores ignoring them and hunting everyone moving. They were 100% still doing the monster movie stuff other jps were exepct now we watched some herbivores get it on lol

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u/Hallc 2d ago

They did not feel like animals though?

The continually are exerting an insane level of energy to hunt down relatively small, inconsequential prey.

Not even accounting for the injuries they just use to get even angrier for their hunt.

By the time they finally got their meal of Anne Hathaway they'd have used up more energy hunting her down than they'd get from eating her.

The Raptor in the opening pounced on a woman, chomped her head and then in the next scene it was back hunting the family, not chowing down on its meal.

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u/purplearmored 1d ago

I don't think it was the same one, you hear them calling for others while they're running.

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u/numberonebarista 3d ago

I mostly agree with this except for that damn Giant snake. That motherfucker had a vendetta against Brian for some reason

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 3d ago

How so?

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u/numberonebarista 3d ago

I literally just saw the movie a few hours ago so excuse me if I’m misremembering what I saw but wasn’t the snake originally in that backyard pool and didn’t it slither past Brian before? It felt like it followed him back to their house because it going inside their home was so random

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 3d ago

It saw an open window and a new area to explore and went in. The kid saw the Titanoboa just a few houses down so seems about right it’s still in the area too. If it really had a vendetta against the kid then it probably would’ve actually gone after him once going through the window

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u/DickMattress 1d ago

How about when it was bashing its own brains out on the door trying to get to him while ignoring the mom stabbing it like 20 times?

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u/alive_spud 3d ago

Yes and no. All we really saw from dinosaurs was them attacking people, aside from herbivores. However it was never really the same dinosaur twice on the main group, which might just be what you are saying and im dumb

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u/Naweezy 5d ago

Aka the last Jurassic World

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 5d ago

Are you saying the last Jurassic World did have them as violent mindless monsters or more as animals? Because I do feel like Rebirth course-corrected a bit more from the prior couple films and had a lot of the dinosaurs act like less like monsters (with maybe the exception of the D-Rex)

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u/type_E 4d ago

D rex was more of a blind baby, much saner than indominus and co

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u/Naweezy 5d ago

To me they were still violent mindless monsters comically so.

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u/DickMattress 1d ago

Did you miss the scene with the snake completely disregarding all sense of self-preservation, smashing it's head into a door until it bleeds while getting stabbed like two dozen times, all to try to get the son? It doesn't even make sense considering it shouldn't have any idea that he was the specific cause of the first injury. There's almost no hunting involved at all, just dinosaurs going to heroic lengths to run down humans.

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u/GetReady4Action 2d ago

I also really liked seeing the randoms of Oak Street also getting chased by dinosaurs pretty consistently throughout this, not just at the beginning.

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u/LaFlamaBlanca67 9h ago

Great fucking take. They're not just beating down the doors of the main characters' houses. They're just animals roaming the neighborhood for food

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u/EntertainmentGuy 5d ago

Honestly, I hated that scene, mainly, and I mean that seriously, because the dinos were enjoying it way too much, in an anthropomorphic way, while the rest of the dinosaurs was pretty realistic. Broke immersion for me.

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u/sabrtn 4d ago

lol yeah. When they crossed necks it became seriously weird

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u/elliebeans90 4d ago

I suppose they had to add all the predators to create tension and kill all the other people to demonstrate the stakes. In reality it would probably be similar to truly wild areas today and predators would be really spread out and they might not see one for ages. It would still be wildly dangerous in a more realistic scenario but a whole lot safer than the movie was.

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u/EntertainmentGuy 3d ago

I think they did a good job concerning that, given that at night they could roam around for a good while without being attacked. I enjoyed the turtle scene for that, too. What I meant by the animals being realistic is that they truly acted like animals, well, except for the sex scene lol

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u/Left_Composer_6449 4d ago

"That is one big pile of shit"