It may sound dull, but it is anything but.

| Apr 25, 2023

... despite its uncertain themes, Hardy's consuming performance is too fascinating to miss.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 2, 2017

[Hardy's performance is] the reason you'd see Locke, and the reason you may remember it fondly, long after the ride ends.

| Jan 5, 2015

Yes, it sounds like a gimmick. But Tom Hardy is so compelling, multilayered and terrific in the title role, this one-man show is never dull.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2015

As you'd expect from a story that never leaves the confines of a car, Locke is intense and claustrophobic.

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

Hardy makes for a compelling psychological tour guide, utilizing much more than his right foot to add forward momentum.

| Jan 5, 2015

It's Hardy's performance that finally makes more than a neat gimmick of Locke.

| Original Score: B | Jan 5, 2015

Locke is an original and impressive experience, an unusual film of considerable quality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2014

If there has been a better cautionary tale for men since Fatal Attraction, I can't think of it, but Locke is about more than fidelity. It's a thriller about the horrors of modern life. All that technology, but who can save him?

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2014

"Locke" is one riveting film.

| Original Score: A | May 16, 2014

For the most part, it works like gangbusters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 15, 2014

A restless, nervy actor, Hardy seems to get a kick out of tying one hand behind his back

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2014

The crises Ivan Locke faces with a tremendous will to do the right thing strike a chord. The mistakes that have him in the driver's seat, but hardly in control, are terribly human and all too familiar.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 9, 2014

Knight's strength is his writing, and arguably, Locke would be almost as good set on a stage with a man sitting on a chair. But then you'd miss the details of Hardy's face in a film that is all about an actor's vehicle.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2014

A man, a car, a hands-free mobile device. And it is extraordinary.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 9, 2014

The film feels like an exercise in dramatic style, and maybe that's enough for some people. But whether it's for me or for the characters, I need an exercise to generate a little more sweat.

| May 8, 2014

Hardy rises to the gimmick and grounds "Locke" with a performance as watchably charismatic as it is minimalist. You can't take your eyes off him - which is fortunate since there's no one else there.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 8, 2014

In the hands of actor Tom Hardy, the story is surprisingly engrossing and compelling, due to Hardy's great skill as an actor and Knight's finely wrought script.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 8, 2014

In many ways, the movie feels like the reply to a question: What would happen if we pared down moviemaking to its simplest, most elemental bones?

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 8, 2014

The movie's greatest asset by far is Hardy, whose rich, unflappable tones, even in times of high emotional pressure, bear a distinct echo of Richard Burton ...

| May 5, 2014