Leave the World Behind review: Julia Roberts stars in a ‘timely’ and ‘chilling’ thriller Netflix Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke are convincing in the suspenseful, entertaining Netflix film, Leave the World Behind, an adaptation of Rumaan Alam's apocalyptic novel, writes Caryn James. The possibilities hovering over Sam Esmail's suspenseful, apocalyptic Leave the World Behind are cyberattacks, rogue AI, nuclear annihilation …
