Dir. Romain Gavras · 2025 · about 100 min · on Netflix
Mike Tyler (Chris Evans) is a movie star returning to public life after a flamethrower incident. He turns up at a gala on a Greek island, held in a former mine, where billionaires and celebrities toast their own environmental virtue. The party is hijacked by a radical group led by Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy), who believe that sacrificing three people to a volcano will save humanity. Mike ends up among the three. Will Arbery wrote the script with Gavras; Vincent Cassel, Sam Richardson, John Malkovich and Salma Hayek are in the supporting cast.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025 and reached Netflix in October 2026. Gavras also directed Athena, which What's on Netflix mentions among films it suggests for fans of this one. Reviewers broadly agree that the actors and the atmosphere are the draw and that the satire is the weak point.
It's too detached to have a point, or even to embrace its pointlessness.
William Bibbiani, TheWrap
The look and the cast. But Why Tho gives its warmest words to the set design and the oppressive atmosphere, and What's on Netflix likes the fiery, gloomy colours and the choral music. Evans is called entertainingly pompous by one critic and accomplished by another, and Taylor-Joy gets the strongest notices of anyone: confident, commanding, and What's on Netflix calls her the only saving grace of a forgettable movie.
The Metacritic page also shows the film has defenders. It lists a positive score from IGN and a middling-to-positive one from Variety, whose critic admires Gavras's craft, so this is not a unanimous pan.
Almost everything about the satire. TheWrap says the film wants to speak about celebrity, climate and religion without committing to any of them, and that the cult lacks a convincing ethos. What's on Netflix finds the opening sharp and then lost under dream sequences and loose plot threads. Cinephile Corner finds the ideas familiar and compares the film to the work of Ruben Östlund, and several reviews measure it against Don't Look Up and find it less biting.
Scores run from a middling 5 out of 10 at Cinephile Corner to 2 out of 5 at What's on Netflix and 3 out of 10 at But Why Tho. At the time of writing, Metacritic shows a mixed average and Rotten Tomatoes sits in the high 30s per cent.
Mostly on how much the mess is worth. The Metacritic page lists scores from 70 at IGN down to 33 at The Playlist, with The New York Times at 50 calling it a willfully nonsensical fever dream, and The Guardian at 40 saying it leaves its characters and its audience stranded on the way to the ending. The warmer reviews value the craft and the occasional laugh; the colder ones say that a film about the hypocrisy of the powerful ought to bite harder than this one does. The score here sits with the middle of that spread, a little below it.
On Netflix, where sources say it arrived on 16 October 2026 in the United States and France. Availability varies by country, so check your own service before you plan an evening around it.
Reviews and data used: TheWrap, What's on Netflix, But Why Tho, Cinephile Corner, Metacritic and Wikipedia for credits. This is a critical reading built from published reviews and the film's own production facts, not a screening report.