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Locked Down

2021

Doug Liman

Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Lucy Boynton ...

4.7

810

Romance. Comedy A quarreling couple make peace in order to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and pull off a jewellery heist at the department store Harrods. Just as they decide to separate, Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) find life has other plans when they are stuck at home in a mandatory lockdown. Co-habitation is proving to be a challenge, but fueled by poetry and copious amounts of wine, it will bring them closer together in the most surprising way. [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A head-smashingly redundant waste of time, talent, energy and resources, a shockingly early yet entirely convincing contender for worst film of the year (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"In spite of the available chemistry and charisma from Hathaway and Ejiofor, 'Locked Down' proves to be a bewildering mess, in part because of choices made in how to tell a story that mixes two-hander drama with a heist (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] has a good time satirizing such now-iconic COVID-19 rituals as the forced civility of corporate Zoom calls (...) it’s also a lockdown drama that has more than a little on its mind."	POS
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"Anne Hathaway leads a starry cast of overqualified performers who futilely try to make us believe that we're not trapped in a gimmicky stunt"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The pandemic sucks the fun out of a promising rom-com heist flick (...) A movie shouldn’t rely on Hathaway and Ejiofor to shell-game your attention away from the movie itself (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"Thanks to Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway it's mildly watchable, but mostly an artifact that might look better after a few years in the Covid time capsule."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"[It] both incorporates and comments upon the realities of the moment. It might not be the first movie to explore life in the pandemic, but it is, for now, the best one."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Supremely annoying (...) If you still think frozen screens and kids disrupting Zoom business calls are a hoot, it's all yours."	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Can a movie about the everyday realities of our crushing new normal also be a breezy piece of Hollywood escapism? At its infrequent best, 'Locked Down' suggests that it can. Or rather, that someday it might."	NEU
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"It mostly leaves us with the impression that this comedy (...) never got the chance to work out its first-draft problems (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] doesn’t fully surrender to its context. The film might lose a lot of its charge if and when we ever get this virus under control, but Knight’s script uses the pandemic as more of a setting than a subject."	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"Though this experiment isn’t a total success, I appreciated its stubborn insistence on engaging with the current moment, this unsettled and complexly miserable moment in time."	NEU
United States	Jacob Oller Paste Magazine	"As it stands, it’s simply a terrible slap-in-the-face greeting to the new HBO Max subscribers that 'Wonder Woman 1984' didn’t already drive off."	NEG
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"I admire the sentiment of 'Locked Down' even if I’m ambivalent about its methods."	NEU

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