David Robert Mitchell, director of the acclaimed It Follows and the divisive Under the Silver Lake, returns after eight years with The End of Oak Street, a JJ Abrams-produced film about dinosaurs invading a 1980s suburban neighborhood.
Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway play an unhappy couple whose domestic misery coincides with prehistoric creatures materializing around their home, alongside a mysterious glowing orb that may hold the key to reversing it all.
The review calls the result contrived, derivative, and inert, arguing it plays less like homage to Spielberg than pastiche, undercut by a lack of real jeopardy and emotional stakes that feel less convincing than the dinosaurs themselves.
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