The End of Oak Street (2026)

What earned the score

• Suggested Same-Sex Attraction

  The film strongly suggests a romantic connection between Audrey and Jeannette through telling glances, hand-holding, and Audrey's obsessive search for Jeannette when she goes missing, though nothing is explicitly sexual.

• Incompetent Father vs Hyper-Competent Mother

  The father is laid off, misses a giant dinosaur with a bow repeatedly, babbles confused questions during exposition, and is portrayed as defensive and useless; the mother secretly writes a book about her misery as a wife, guilts her husband over one drink, never misses a rifle shot with no training, and lucidly explains the entire plot while the daughter repeats it slower for the bewildered father.

• Family Restructured Through Father's Death, Son's Injury, and Diversity Adoption to Enable Mother's Empowerment

  The film kills the father and incapacitates the son at the midpoint while introducing a mixed-race adopted daughter, reshuffling the family into three females and one wounded boy who cannot shoot. Critics argue this restructuring treats the family's whiteness as 'a problem it needs to solve' and functions as 'a headcount' rather than organic storytelling. The mother's rise as a 'female warrior' is achieved not by building her up but by 'clearing the room' — making male failure (death and disability) a prerequisite for female empowerment.

• Character's Shallow Faith Statement

  A character who rarely attends church or reads the Bible asserts that God will not let their family die in the past, which the reviewer characterizes as mockery of Christianity.

• Dismissive Treatment of Faith

  Denise rolls her eyes at Greg's assertion that God will protect the family, reminding him they only attend church on Christmas, and Audrey tells Jeannette she doesn't believe in God, with Jeannette admitting she sometimes doesn't either—presenting faith as trivial and questionable.

• Minor Views Playboy Magazine

  Brian, a teen character, looks at what appears to be a Playboy magazine, though the only visible page shows a woman in a modest white bikini or underwear.

Details

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

Starring

Anne HathawayEwan McGregorChristian ConveryMaisy StellaJordan Alexa Davis

Director

David Robert Mitchell

Writer

David Robert Mitchell

Genre

Science FictionMysteryThriller

Release Date

Aug 14, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  A man is visible with underwear.

  A boy looks at a magazine with an immodestly dressed woman pictured.

  A boy jokes about a dog biting a toy's testicles.

  Characters see dinosaurs mating and make jokes and take a picture.

  Brief and mild kissing.

• Violence Moderate

  A cat is heard yowling, later in the movie it appears dead, being eaten.

  A man's leg is bitten off by a dinosaur.

  Occasional bloody violence including Animal Attacks, Shootings, Stabbings and even limbs being torn off.

  A man is killed by pterodactyls offscreen, we hear him screaming for help and later there is a big blood puddle where he was killed.

  That are several scenes of people being chased and attacked by dinosaurs, with occasionally bloody aftermaths.

  Some dead bodies with bloody details are seen along the movie with a few being eaten by dinosaurs.

  A woman finds another woman dead on the floor of her home, with her throat torn out, bloody dinosaur footprints leading away from the body.

  Guns and weapons are used quite frequently at dinosaurs.

  A person stabs a snake repeatedly.

• Profanity Moderate

  1 use of "f**king" (used in the very end"), almost a dozen uses of "s**t". Lesser uses of - sons of b**ches, ass, hell, and d**n.

• Drugs Mild

  Alcohol use.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  Several characters are killed brutally by dinosaurs which may upset sensitive viewers.

  The film's reliance on jumpscares may upset the tightly wound.

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