{"id":7914,"date":"2026-09-02T22:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:20:12","slug":"the-end-of-oak-street-by-david-robert-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/09\/02\/the-end-of-oak-street-by-david-robert-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The End of Oak Street<\/em> by David Robert Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u274c It\u2019s stumbling along on its characters\u2019 relentless idiocy and irrational impulses, not driven forward by anything resembling dramatic development.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c Everything\u2019s explained to death without making sense; dialogs excel in cringe; and every single motif has been seen before, only better.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Nice creature effects and some enjoyable gore.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell wants to take up Spielberg\u2019s mantle but all he\u2019s wearing is a children\u2019s Halloween cape.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_End_of_Oak_Street\"><em>The End of Oak Street<\/em><\/a> by David Robert Mitchell, 2026.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on September 1, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/09\/02\/the-end-of-oak-street-by-david-robert-mitchell\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The End of Oak Street by David Robert Mitchell\"><p>\ud83c\udfac One can usually imagine a screenplay being even worse, but not this one.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7916,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/7916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}