Locke

Reviews:
4 stars out of -- "After 85 minutes you’ll have witnessed one man’s whole world shift its foundations while he -- and you -- were sitting still." - 04/14/2014 Total Film

4 stars out of 5 -- "It’s a daring experiment brilliantly executed, with Tom Hardy giving one of the performances of his career." Empire

"[W]hip-smart filmmaking by writer-director Steven Knight and his team combined with Tom Hardy's mesmerizing acting make the micro-budgeted British independent LOCKE more minute-to-minute involving than this year's more costly extravaganzas." - 04/24/2014 Los Angeles Times

"LOCKE is a bit of a storytelling stunt: For the entirety of the movie, Ivan is the only character on screen....The film manages to stay as tight as a vise." - 05/02/2014 Entertainment Weekly

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's a powerhouse of claustrophobic suspense and fierce emotion, mostly because Tom Hardy, best known as Bane in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, is a blazing wonder as Locke." - 04/24/2014 Rolling Stone

"Ivan Locke is a character of consequence...And Tom Hardy, the actor who plays him, is by turns spellbinding, seductive, heartbreaking, explosive and flat-out thrilling." - 05/01/2014 Wall Street Journal

4 stars out of 4 -- "In writer-director Steven Knight’s mesmerizing jewel of film titled LOCKE, Tom Hardy is so brilliant we readily watch him drive a car and talk on the hands-free phone for virtually the entirety of the film..." - 05/01/2014 Chicago Sun-Times

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[H]is voice a comfortingly gruff burr that can turn fearsomely sardonic at the tilt of a rearview mirror, Hardy uncannily conveys the weightless pressure and the suffocating freedom that can only be felt simultaneously by a man who’s divesting himself of his entire way of life." - 04/25/2014 RogerEbert.com

"[I]t’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life." - 04/24/2014 New York Times