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The Best Dinosaur Movie Since ‘Jurassic Park’ Is Officially America’s #1 Movie
The End of Oak Street, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, has become America’s top home-viewed film after leading the Apple TV Store’s US movie chart for six days. Its success is notable because the dinosaur survival thriller takes place in an ordinary 1982 neighbourhood rather than a theme park, offering a fresh alternative to Jurassic Park’s enduring influence.
The film follows a family and their entire neighbourhood after they are transported to the Cretaceous period, where they face dwindling supplies and dangerous dinosaurs. Released digitally on 15 September, it ranks ahead of The Invite, Backrooms and Tony, and has an 86% critics’ score from 335 Rotten Tomatoes reviews, alongside a 76% verified audience score; it is available to rent or buy digitally in the United States.
In short
- The End of Oak Street tops America’s Apple TV Store movie chart.
- The dinosaur thriller has led the chart for six days.
- Critics gave it an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Explained simply
Jurassic Park, released in 1993, helped make dinosaur films a major part of popular cinema. It follows people trying to survive after dinosaurs are brought back to life in a theme park, and its mix of adventure and danger has influenced later films.
The Cretaceous period was a geological era, roughly 145 to 66 million years ago, when dinosaurs lived. In dinosaur survival stories, characters must cope with threats such as predators and limited food, often far from modern help.
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor are established film actors, and Apple TV Store is a digital service where viewers can rent or buy films. Critics’ and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes reflect separate groups’ responses, so they can offer different views of the same film.