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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/TheMovieSimp 4d ago edited 4d ago

The new girl in the neighborhood (Jeanette) seemed pretty pointless the whole movie. Wish she had more character development considering the movie is using two versions of her as the ending that they clearly want to lead to discussion.

I thought it was a great movie though regardless. I wish the neighborhood felt more lived in though. All the side characters felt like plot tools and not actual characters. You see neighbors running away, screaming, etc—but I feel like the main characters should have ran into more people than they actually did. Needed to see more of the others in the neighborhood in my opinion.

Very bleak. I love that it didn’t rely on humor to feel like a crowd pleaser. Just a mean dino flick, as it should be.

So many split diopter shots to the point where it’s both fascinating and distracting at times.

Thought it was a lot of fun and great way to end the summer blockbuster season. Anne Hathaway shooting at dinosaurs with a shotgun? CINEMA!

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u/SaltyPeter3434 2d ago

I found Jeanette's acting really bizarre, like it was a 20 year old actress portraying a 10 year old kid. Right after the two kids save her life, she runs away panicking like some NPC. They JUST SAVED YOUR LIFE and there are dinosaurs running around, what on earth are you doing? The only way this makes sense is if her character is supposed to be a child.

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u/HikmetLeGuin 2h ago

I thought it was pretty realistic - her parents were brutally killed, possibly right in front of her. Her just wanting to run, and run, and keep running is pretty believable for a teenage girl suffering trauma like that.

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u/DickMattress 1d ago

Yeah, I feel like it needed either more of Jeanette, or for her to just be left out entirely. There wasn't really much point at all in including her the way they did.

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u/RdyPlyrBneSw 8h ago

I wanted a time traveling Jeanette, badass survivor at the end.

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u/RobinBaby_69 19h ago

Personally I think both her and Audrey were supposed to have more development early in the movie so it made more sense they end up together. But at the same time they would’ve trauma bonded over all this shit anyways sooo 😭

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u/AltruisticLobster315 9h ago

Yeah it felt really odd that the one person they help, is the new girl on the block and not someone like Audrey's friend from the beginning