"The End of Oak Street"
Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway have a bad feeling in “The End of Oak Street,” from Warner Bros. Pictures
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"The End of Oak Street"

Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor find their suburban neighborhood has turned into Jurassic Park. But is copycatting Spielberg enough?

By Peter Travers
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★★★ (3 out of 4)

How fitting that the last epic gasp of summer 2026 plays like a film Steven Spielberg made better in the last century. Put a family or a world at risk from sharks, aliens, demons and dinosaurs, and audiences reliably swallowed the bait like the newest wonder of the world.

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