Best dinosaur movie since Jurassic Park now available to stream at home

This 5/5 sci-fi thriller 'delivers on the unrealised promise of the recent Jurassic World sequels'.

Set in 1982, the story follows Denise and Greg Platt (Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor), a married couple who seem, from the outside, to have a perfect life in the American suburbs with their two teen children, Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery). Behind the facade, financial and relationship trouble is brewing, with the aspiring novelist Denise quietly contemplating a divorce.

After a string of strange Twilight Zone-esque occurrences, the family awaken to find their neighbourhood transported millions of years into the past, to the age of dinosaurs. Can the Platts put their differences aside and find a way to survive their strange new surroundings where danger lurks behind every corner?

Accessible through HBO Max and NOW, The End of Oak Street delivers on the unrealised promise of the recent Jurassic World sequels. This was to see dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures rampaging around suburbia.

The new dino flick is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (the modern classic horror It Follows). He crafts several of the most striking, strangest images of the cinema year in the collision between 1980s Americana and the Mesozoic era.

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That's while also delivering several survival action set pieces that are just that little bit more scary than you'd expect for a family-friendly film. Interestingly, the sci-fi thriller got a 12A rating in Britain but a 15A rating in Ireland.

On top of tension and thrills, though, there are deeper feelings and themes to be found within The End of Oak Street. You can read the dinosaurs destroying the Platts' neighbourhood as a metaphor for everything repressed within the family violently erupting to the surface.

All in all, it's a smart, wonderfully entertaining blockbuster that truly earns the descriptor "Spielbergian".

How to watch The End of Oak Street

The End of Oak Street is streaming in Ireland and the UK via HBO Max and NOW.

Viewers in the United States can also watch the movie on HBO Max.