Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, Netflix's Leave the World Behind is the perfect apocalyptic movie for 2023. Writer and director Sam Esmail, who was behind the hit show Mr. Robot, crafts an intricately realistic tale of survival, showcasing how the constant division in America will make it easy for us to crumble when an ultimate threat rears its head. Equipped with a star-studded cast, Leave the World Behind is a wildly good time while still feeling important and timely. The film is also flooded with tension-filled scenes of chaos that won't be forgotten anytime soon. Esmail toys with the audience, and some viewers won't enjoy the strange choices this film makes, but for audience members willing to lose themselves within a cynically unsafe movie, Leave the World Behind will prove to be a provocative commentary on the current state of our world.