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Film reviews: THE END OF OAK STREET; THE BRINK OF WAR; NIMRODS
Three new August releases take their protagonists on road trips, or at least attempts at them.
"The End of Oak Street" Warner Bros. Pictures The End of Oak Street ***1/2 David Robert Mitchell ( It Follows , Under the Silver Lake ) has shown such a distinctive filmmaking sensibility that I wouldn’t have expected his first feature in eight years to be a full-on homage to vintage Steven Spielberg, but here we are—and he pulls it off.
Set in a Michigan suburb circa 1982, it follows a family—unhappily married Denise (Anne Hathaway) and Greg (Ewan McGregor) and their teenagers Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery)—as they face a startling challenge when a two-mile chunk of their…
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