LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is an excellently crafted low-maintenance thriller, perfect for those moments we need entertainment while running on two cylinders mentally. Furthermore, we can take some pointers on riding out societal collapse in class and comfort.

The film has healthy doses of creepy weirdness, punctuated by great camera work, a slick visual style entirely in keeping with the antiseptically luxurious lifestyle of its protagonists, including (but not limited to) megastars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawk and Mahershala Ali.

Aspirational voyeurism has always been one of the reasons people flock to the cinema. Leave The World Behind is no exception, cooking up its own unique blend of ‘luxorealism’ - if shit really did finally hit the fan in western society, this is the sort of disheveling you’d imagine the real Roberts, Hawk and Ali to have to endure.

But the film is a fun watch for the whole family, albeit doubling up as a glitzy Hollywood apocalyptic handbook for the 1% who left the world behind a long time ago.