The End of Oak Street (2026) Movie Review

The End of Oak Street is a movie directed by David Robert Mitchell, who some may know as the director of It Follows (2014). This movie stars Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery. It has a runtime of 1 hour and 39 minutes.

This is the type of movie I would usually describe as a worthwhile but forgettable Saturday cinema visit. It’s worth seeing if you like dinosaur movies such as Jurassic Park, along with a little horror and action, without too much of either. The End of Oak Street is a light horror/action movie that is a fun watch with a simple story.

I guess the downside of this movie is the story. The characters don’t have much depth, so you don’t start to care about them or what happens to them. This matters a lot because, in a movie where dinosaurs are eating people, you want to care about the characters enough to feel a sense of suspense when they are in danger. Jurassic Park does this well with the children: it’s scary when the dinosaurs hunt them, and you want them to survive because the film builds an attachment to those characters. But in The End of Oak Street, I don’t get that sense of concern or suspense.

The action provides the movie’s high points. For cinemagoers this weekend, it’s worth seeing because it’s essentially a film about dinosaurs in the suburbs and lots of scared people getting eaten. This is the spectacle The End of Oak Street offers, and it works. I found myself entertained by the action, the chases, and much of what was happening on screen. With a runtime of 1 hour and 39 minutes, it felt just right for a movie of this kind.

The dinosaur designs look okay. Many appear to have feathers, and some seem to have fur. I know that dinosaurs with feathers have been discovered, but did they all have them? I am not sure, but in this movie they do. Some of the dinosaurs looked more like giant birds. Maybe they were all actually just birds back then. I don’t know enough about the topic to know whether these dinosaurs were accurate. They were interesting to look at, and I liked that they didn’t look like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

The actors are good. Both Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor are the highest-profile names. I felt that they both needed more screen time and much more character development. The movie might have worked better as a story about a couple trying to survive a dinosaur invasion in their street. The child actors are good as well, but suffer from a lack of screen time and character development. The movie has a short runtime and way too many characters for the simple story to handle.

In the end, I am happy to recommend The End of Oak Street as a good movie to watch this weekend. It’s got some decent dinosaur action scenes, interesting designs for the dinosaurs themselves, and plenty of people being eaten, which is a bit scary. The caveat is that the story is very simple and doesn’t give you strong characters to care about. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor give the film enough weight to push it over the line as something worth seeing, but its thin characters and simple story make it unlikely to stay with you for long.