Julia Roberts' Netflix movie lands excellent Rotten Tomatoes rating following first reviews
Julia Roberts' latest film Leave the World Behind has garnered a fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes after its first reviews.
The film premieres on Netflix in December and is Oscar-winner Roberts' first for the streaming service.
At the time of writing, it has a strong 86% rating on the review aggregator website, based on seven reviews. That score will likely change over the coming months when more reviews are out.
Roberts stars alongside Ethan Hawke as a married couple whose weekend away at a rented cabin with their children is interrupted by two strangers who have been victims of a terrifying cyberattack.
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Soon, the group must decide on how to survive the threat while coming to terms with each of their places in the crumbling world.
Alongside Roberts and Hawke, the film also stars Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse actor Mahershala Ali and Kevin Bacon.
Here's what some of the critics have been saying about Leave the World Behind.
Deadline
"Unquestionably, for whatever genre you want to place it in, Leave the World Behind has much to say about the tenuous state of our current planet and the freewheeling technology on which we increasingly rely but which also threatens to consume us."
Indie Wire
"The film is able to turn what might literally be the end of the world into a gripping stage play because the four adults are so well-written. Ali steals the show as George."
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Variety
"This film feels like a more satisfying version of the not-dissimilarly apocalyptic, but ultimately preposterous Knock at the Cabin from earlier this year."
Hollywood Reporter
"Fine performances help to bolster a problematic picture written and directed by Sam Esmail, adapted from Rumaan Alam’s best-selling novel."
Screen International
"A confident, entertaining thriller about two families forced to live together in the middle of nowhere as civilization collapses around them."
Leave the World Behind premieres December 8 on Netflix.
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