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It's unofficially dinosaur week on your favorite streaming services, with not only Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor but also the Paw Patrol dealing with prehistoric beasties.
Hathaway and McGregor run for their lives in the sci-fi thriller "The End of Oak Street," now on HBO Max, while cartoon pups are back to save the day alongside large reptiles in "Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie" on Paramount+. The rousing true-life drama "Being Heumann" is now streaming on Apple TV, and Netflix has a bunch of fresh fare, from the Jessica Chastain country music mystery "Heartland" to holiday film "The Gospel of Christmas."
Even if you're not into high fashion, director Ron Howard's documentary about influential photographer Richard Avedon is wholly enthralling. The movie chronicles the iconoclastic artist's life and work, from doing photo IDs for World War II draftees to capturing candid portraits of the most famous people in the 20th century.
Whether you're prepping for "Avengers: Doomsday" (in theaters Dec. 18) or somehow haven't seen the top-grossing movie of all time, "Endgame" is a must-watch. This version has all the Marvel derring-do, from a high-stakes time-travel mission to one last throwdown with Thanos, with new footage that connects to the upcoming "Doomsday."
In director Siân Heder's follow-up to "CODA," the crowd-pleasing period drama centers on activist Judy Heumann (Ruth Madeley) and her work to get people with disabilities equal access and rights. With a band of misfits, she leads a 1977 sit-in/takeover at the San Francisco federal building that gives a government official (Mark Ruffalo) fits.
Call it "Jurassic Suburbia." The sci-fi thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway as a married couple with kids in the 1980s who wake up to find that their entire neighborhood has been inexplicably transported to the prehistoric era. The family then spends the rest of the movie trying to return home and not get eaten by dinosaurs.
The gleefully absurd comedy – and "Wizard of Oz" spoof – stars Zoey Deutch as Kansas hairdresser Gail, whose fiancé cheats on her with his celebrity "hall pass," Jennifer Aniston. She bolts for a hairdressing convention in LA and picks up a crew of random weirdo friends on her quest to have sex with her celebrity crush, Jon Hamm.
There's a lot of joyful noise involved in writer/director Tyler Perry's musical holiday drama. After his dad's death, pastor Isaac (Durrell "Tank" Babbs) moves to New York with his wife Rebecca (Fantasia Barrino) and kids to take over his great-grandfather's decrepit church, and Isaac struggles with belief and temptation in his holy mission.
In this Nashville twist on detective noir, country music legend Misty Jones (Jessica Chastain) returns to Music City − 20 years after being run out of town − to find her missing niece, a rising star in the industry. Misty kicks up a ruckus in town, digging up clues and shaking down suspects in an investigation that reveals her own eye-opening secrets.
Olivia Wilde's best directorial effort is still "Booksmart" but this one is close. She also stars in the clever comedy with Seth Rogen as a couple in a passionless marriage whose relationship is shaken up by an alluring proposition from their neighbors (Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz) at an impromptu dinner party.
Rosalind Eleazar is sensational in the title role – and as director Chris Rock's muse – in his cleverly thorny Hollywood satire as an Emmy-winning household name who struggles to get work. The self-destructive, mercurial Misty is given a career lifeline by a director (Rock) she once wronged but has to face past dalliances, grudges and mistakes.
In the kid-friendly animated adventure, the heroic pups of the Paw Patrol navigate a nasty storm and get shipwrecked on a remote island that's full of dinosaurs. They make new friends, furry and otherwise, in the jungle and team up with dinos big and small to save the island when it's threatened by a dangerous erupting volcano.
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