The End of Oak Street Review: End of the Summer Trash That’s Like a Loopier (and in Some Ways Better) ‘Jurassic’ Movie The latest release from Hollywood, "The End of Oak Street," has been billed as a fun, over the top summer movie perfect for the end of the blockbuster season.
Beneath its cheesy surface and blatant nods to classic dinosaur films, however, lies a more insidious trend: the willingness of filmmakers to coast on nostalgia rather than innovate.
David Robert Mitchell, the writer director behind "It Follows" and "Under the Silver Lake," has been criticized for relying too heavily on genre tropes.