The End of Oak Street, 2026 - ★★★½

The End of Oak Street is better than I expected.

I thought it would be just a dumb, fun movie, but the technical aspects made me respect it. It’s still a dumb, fun movie, though LOL.

The camerawork is amazing! I love how they create suspense with visuals and sound. It’s subtle yet engaging throughout the movie. This alone makes the film worth watching, imo. 

Anne Hathaway carried the film so hard, I felt like she either overdid it a bit or got a different memo somehow. Everyone else seems like they’re acting in a dumb, fun movie, while she performs like she’s going for acting nominations. LMAO. Seriously, though, she’s fantastic in this.

However, the movie still has the same tropes: characters are dumber than rocks and can’t think straight for more than a few seconds. So, you have to meet them at their level by shutting your brain off just like they do to enjoy the story.

You can definitely feel that they just wanted to make a dinosaur movie and were too lazy to set up a proper explanation for how the mechanism in the story actually works.

That’s okay, though, as I didn’t expect much anyway (though the ending gets very dark and morally questionable if you really think about it). What I truly hoped for were some good dinosaur sequences, and this movie did not disappoint! This is a better dinosaur movie than all the recent Jurassic World films combined! I can’t help but imagine how good those movies could have been if they’d had a crew that cared about crafting dinosaur portrayals the way this one did.

Overall, if you like dinosaurs, you’ll enjoy this. It’s highly entertaining, provided you don’t mind the lack of logic in both plot and character development. I only wish they had focused more on the dynamics within the suburban neighborhood rather than solely on one family.