The Best Dinosaur Movie Since Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park Is #1 On Streaming In The United States

Published Sep 16, 2026, 10:37 AM EDT

Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more.

Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics."

The best dinosaur movie since Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park has become an instant streaming sensation in the United States. Audiences have always been fascinated by dinosaurs, with the original Jurassic Park trilogy setting up the genre for huge success for several decades after. As the director behind 1993's Jurassic Park, the best live-action dinosaur movie to date, Spielberg further cemented himself as a sci-fi master, having previously directed movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The Jurassic Park franchise has continued to grow, even though Spielberg only returned as a director for The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

After the end of the original Jurassic Park trilogy, one of the most iconic movie franchises of all time was resurrected in 2015 with the release of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard's Jurassic World. The actors starred in a new trilogy, with Scarlett Johansson taking over for a new chapter started by 2025's Jurassic World Rebirth. That said, many dinosaur movies have been released outside the Jurassic Park franchise over the years, including Adam Driver's 65, the action-packed Primitive War, the animated PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, and more. Now, the new dinosaur movie The End of Oak Street has become a streaming sensation.

The End Of Oak Street Is Already #1 On Streaming

The End of Oak Street is now the most-watched movie on the Apple TV Store in the United States. It arrived on September 15, after having been released in theaters on August 14, becoming an instant hit. The 2026 dinosaur movie stars huge names like Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, focusing on the Platt family as they must fight for survival when their entire neighborhood travels back in time to when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth. In parallel to that, Hathaway's Denise and McGregor's Greg, who are at the crisp of getting a divorce, try to find a way to keep their family together.

While The End of Oak Street was not successful in theaters, only grossing $118.5 million against a reported budget of $85 million, the new dinosaur movie was met with positive reception from critics and viewers alike. On Rotten Tomatoes, The End of Oak Street boasts a stellar 86% critics' score based on 328 reviews. Hathaway's latest 2026 movie also holds a strong 76% audience score. As such, with the dinosaur movie in good standing with critics and moviegoers, the many viewers who missed out on The End of Oak Street in theaters, judging by its box office, are watching it in droves on the Apple TV Store.

The Sci-Fi Film Is A Perfect Jurassic Park Replacement

The End of Oak Street is the best dinosaur movie since Spielberg's Jurassic Park and also the perfect replacement for the franchise. It brings the same tone of the classic 1980s Amblin movies. The End of Oak Street is a family adventure that knows how to use dinosaurs to build incredible tension.

Even when they are not onscreen, through the clever use of shadows and other visual cues, as well as a striking score. Its DNA feels very similar to Spielberg's Jurassic Park movies, and the fact that The End of Oak Street is set in 1982 creates the perfect throwback dinosaur adventure, which now rules streaming.