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Leave the World Behind
Directed by
Sam Esmail
R
2023
2h 20m
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A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices, and two strangers appear at their door.
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Cast of Leave the World Behind
Julia Roberts
Amanda Sandford / Producer
Ethan Hawke
Clay Sandford
Mahershala Ali
G.H. Scott
Myha'la
Ruth Scott
Farrah Mackenzie
Rose Sandford
Charlie Evans
Archie Sandford
Kevin Bacon
Danny
Vanessa Aspillaga
Salvadora
Orli Gottesman
Taylor
Alexis Rae Forlenza
Danny's Daughter
Josh Drennen
Crow
Erica Cho
Jocelyn
Pavel Frolov
Plane Crash Victim #1
Jesse King
Plane Crash Victim #2
Kevin Kenny
Plane Crash Victim #3
Sam Esmail
Capt. Esmail (uncredited) / Director / Screenplay / Producer
Rumaan Alam
Novel / Executive Producer
Daniel M. Stillman
Executive Producer
Marisa Yeres Gill
Producer
Lisa Roberts Gillan
Producer
Leave the World Behind Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
The end of the world is always a valuable thought experiment; it makes us start asking important questions. Alam's book wondered: "What if?" But Esmail's movie mostly wants to know: "How come?"
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
But "Leave the World Behind" builds slowly to a small denouement, not a big awesome moment, an approach that may frustrate viewers looking for answers. It is best to just appreciate each odd scene for what it is.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Whatever one takes away from it, Leave the World Behind should trigger conversations beyond whether to hit the "like" button. By that measure, give Esmail credit for a movie that up, down or sideways, makes it hard to look away.
Slant Magazine
Steven Nguyen Scaife
In the end, Leave the World Behind is content to blandly shrug in the direction of an amorphous calamity, reaching for a profundity that it fails to achieve.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Esmail uses the story's ambiguity almost like a get-out-of-jail-free card, piling on the weird events without actually telling us what's happening. He half-asses it, in other words.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It plays like an M. Night Shyamalan movie, but without the supernatural element and with a thick vein of social critique running throughout. What happens may be extreme, but it feels based on mundane reality.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
An apocalyptic thriller where a series of cataclysmic events don't add up to much of anything, really.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
Though the main cast are accomplished, beautiful and intermittently interesting, they feel out of place in a movie that ought to have been a lot more scary, or a lot more subdued.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It's an unsettling, well-acted experience with layers and cautionary warnings to spare.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Sam Esmail's film is a dreary, harrowing sit -- and all the more invigorating for it.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
The seeds of our destruction have already been planted by us... And the more that Leave the World Behind pokes at that notion, the more you fear that this isn't a thriller. It could be a documentary with movie stars.
Observer
Dylan Roth
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.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
"Leave the World Behind" struggles where it matters most, fashioning real stakes to accompany the turmoil.
Perri Nemiroff (YouTube)
Perri Nemiroff
A perfectly cast film that doesn't skip a beat. Leave the World Behind offers a stellar mix of thrills, unsettling ideas and pitch perfect laughs that amount to a wildly riveting watch, one that will weigh heavily on minds after the credits.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
The acting is first rate and it needs to be -- this is a drama of manners and secrets, and each sigh or glance reveals so much. We haven't seen a nasty Roberts character in a while and Ali balances sophistication and slyness artfully.
ABC News
Peter Travers
Oh no-not another doomsday thriller! Yes, but see how director Sam Esmail, powered by an exceptional all-star cast (Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Bacon), makes you care about being human while frying your nerves to a frazzle.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
It suffers from trying to do too many things... But on the whole it's a cut above the sort of films Shyamalan has been trying to do lately.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Amy Nicholson
A pretty playful and taut thriller that's very small but trying to cram in a bunch of ideas about paranoia, class, misanthropy and the dependence of people on the internet.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
An impressively unnerving film with things to say about race, tech and conspiracy theories.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Leave the World Behind" is the unusual case of a film that starts out bad and gets better. So, if you find that you're already enjoying yourself, stick with it, because it definitely won't get any worse.
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