Leave the World Behind is a dumb movie disguised as a smart movie, a middling thriller whose decorated cast and tricky camerawork can’t compensate for its undercooked, overwritten script. By Dylan Roth FULL REVIEW 10 chkwagner Dec 27, 2023 ...
Julia Roberts in "Leave the World Behind." Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Speaking of a lack of catharsis, let's talk about the apocalypse at the center of Leave the World Behind. Just like in Alam's novel, this mysterious doomsday manifests in a series of strange events: the citywide blac...
In Sam Esmail's Netflix movie 'Leave the World Behind,' Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Mahershala Ali fight to stay human amid an apocalypse.
as well as prioritize interpersonal drama over action and bombast. ButLeave the World Behind, writer-director Sam Esmail’s adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed 2020 novel of the same name, is determined to have it both ways, telling the story of a group of people seeking ...
While these characters might seem a bit straightforward,it’s how these people interact that makesLeave the World Behindwork so well.From the moment Amanda meets G.H., she’s uncertain about trusting him, but as the film goes on, we see how this changes and reverts.Leave the World Behind...
Writer-director Sam Esmail has crafter an effective thriller in which viewers' imaginations will play as much of a role as what is revealed on the small screen. LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND (2023) Myha’la as Ruth, Mahershala Ali as G.H., Ethan Hawke as Clay and Julia Roberts as Amanda. ...
much of alam’s interior poetry. the novel is as much an elegant psychological and sociological study as it is a doomsday thriller, but esmail leans far more on the latter quality. his leave the world behind falls short of profound, though still proves plenty rattling. julia roberts and etha...
Rumaan Alam is the author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and the instant New York Times bestseller Leave the World Behind. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Repu...
In Leave the World Behind, however, we have no idea how many people are behind the cyberattack, so perhaps it could be done. Leave the World Behind plays on real fears around automation and self-driving cars Notably, the Tesla scene does not appear in Alam's novel; it's a scene that...
Leave the World Behindis based on a novel by Rumaan Alam. (You can pick up a copy of the novel atTHIS LINK.) Written and directed by Esmail, the film adaptation has the following synopsis:A family’s vacation is upended when two strangers arrive at night, seeking refuge from a cyberat...