This is the greatest David Thewlis performance, in one of the greatest Mike Leigh films.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2021

This is a movie of virtuoso nihilism and scorn.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 11, 2021

An anti-epic -- retrofitted to the consciousness of an antihero raging into the close of a century, the end of the millennium.

| Nov 13, 2018

This is an astonishing film in a number of ways, a tour de force that's brilliantly played and written and directed with total conviction.

| Mar 4, 2015

Naked is a revelation, a parable of spiritual homelessness and the terror it engenders.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2015

Mike Leigh's Naked is a great one -- a film of brutal impact, withering wit and humanity. It deserves one of the highest accolades movies can receive: Seeing it shakes you up, changes your vision.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2015

If America's nightmare self-image is Bad Lieutenant, this is the British answer: just as driven, visionary and self-destructive but not needing an excess of drugs or blood to showcase human horrors.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2015

Thanks to David Thewlis' performance, which has been collecting prizes since last spring's Cannes Film Festival, Johnny's energy and ferocious wit outweigh his brutishness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2015

By the end of the film, there's even something vaguely inspirational about our antihero's painful journey through the bowels of his self-created hell.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 4, 2015

Sorting out the intelligence from the hysteria is no easy matter, and the picture rubs our noses in this uncertainty so remorselessly that we sometimes forget that what we're watching is largely a comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2015

It would be hard to imagine a film much sourer than Naked, but sourness is not a fault, merely a characteristic. Hollowness, now, self-indulgence, a sort of gloating emotional ugliness -- those are faults.

| Mar 4, 2015

Thewlis, who won the best-actor prize at Cannes for a performance so perfectly perverse that much as you want to, you cannot turn away.

| Mar 4, 2015

Watching this lost soul's flaming descent is a disturbing yet exhilarating experience. Leigh makes art out of his own ambivalence.

| Mar 4, 2015

As immersive and well-acted as any character study Leigh's done, but ultimately numbing in its insistence on focusing on this would-be world-wary philosopher.

| Jul 19, 2011

Though recognizably a Leigh movie, with its gallery of Brit eccentrics, Naked dwarfs anything the director has done to date, with a resonant, beautifully modulated script that builds to a bleak but basically optimistic portrait of post-'80s Blighty.

| Mar 26, 2009

The cast is outstanding -- Thewlis, in particular, whose virtuoso performance gives the film its cruel energy, wit and power.

| Jan 26, 2006

David Thewlis gives an unforgettable performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 12, 2005

Thewlis' undeniable magnetism still draws sympathy even when he reaches his lowest moments... there's something improbably and touchingly noble about his struggle to survive.

| Oct 1, 2005

A brilliant somersault of a movie that lands this fine English director in dark new cinematic territory.

| May 20, 2003

Naked is a mesmerizing character study, an attempt to stretch the emotional boundaries of truth on film as far as they will go.

| Jan 31, 2003