Maybe I’m not the right person to provide a review of Leave the World Behind, the Sam Esmail apocalyptic film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon that is topping the charts at Netflix this week. I’m going to struggle to be objective about two major facets of the movie without which it wouldn’t exist.
First, I have very little patience with end-of-the-world films, and this is very much that. I find them repetitive and largely misanthropic, but, more than that, it’s the dishonesty and poorly hidden agendas, particularly coming from Hollywood, that rankle about that genre.
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