‘Leave The World Behind’ Review: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali & Ethan Hawke Face The Anxiety Of A Collapsing World
theplaylist.netGiven this rising age of anxiety we’re in, where problems of uncertainty and instability feel like they’re global and yet local, intimate, and personal too, writer/director Sam Esmail’s unnerving global collapse thriller, “Leave The World Behind,” feels like it arrives at an all-too-perfectly timed moment.
Its opening moments are arresting. Ethan Hawke’s father character, Clay Sanford, worries about job insecurity while his wife, Amanda (a terrifically cynical Julia Roberts, seemingly relishing to play a character this pessimistic and dark), stares out the window and delivers a striking monologue.
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