‘Leave The World Behind’ Review: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali & Ethan Hawke Face The Anxiety Of A Collapsing World
Given 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.