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The End of Oak Street is coming to theaters on Friday (August 14), and the first reviews are hitting social media.

The movie, written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, as well as Maisy Stella and Christian Convery.

Here’s a synopsis: “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.”

“A few years ago, I was walking through our neighborhood in Michigan, just walking down the street, and I was passing by this garage [with a] chain link fence and garbage cans,” the director told Entertainment Weekly of the inspiration.

“And I was struck by the image of, like, ‘It’d be really interesting if there was a dinosaur right there.’”

“Just like anybody, the first Jurassic Park movie, I absolutely love. But for me, my language of dinosaur movies goes back much further. I’d be lying if I say that that isn’t a movie that I absolutely love because I do. But I wanted to do something different,” he added of comparisons to other dino-themed films.

Critics have begun weighing in with their first reactions of the film, and it sounds like they’re loving it!

IndieWire‘s David Ehrlich says: “The End of Oak Street absolutely rocks. hilarious, perfectly paced, Ambliny but mean as hell, Anne Hathaway blasts a T-Rex with a shotgun… it delivers more fun in any 5-minute stretch than the entire Jurassic franchise has in total since the 90s. biggest surprise of the summer.”

The Big Picture‘s Sean Fennessey says: “This movie is well-made, brisk, a lot of fun, and also has a strain of familial sincerity in common with most of this summer’s blockbusters like THE ODYSSEY, SPIDER-MAN: BND, and TOY STORY 5. A welcome shift away from ‘Well, THAT just happened’ irono-storytelling. See it.”

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