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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 16 Mar 2021

The film busts a gut attempting to free itself from the confines of the couple’s home…

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By Karen Gordon (174) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 16 Feb 2021

Shot when COVID protocols allowed for minimal location shooting, the film is amusing partly because it hits on these resonant COVID-tropes…

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By Alan Ng (404) for Film Threat (5,156) on 21 Jan 2021

As much as I thought the film’s heist element was unnecessary, which it is, Liman sure knows how to make it exciting and even in a pandemic…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 19 Jan 2021

Locked Down is inevitably, and intentionally, of the moment. But I hope some of its off-the-cuff spirit lasts after the pandemic…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 19 Jan 2021

While Locked Down is an undoubtedly fascinating pop-culture curio, it’s also sloppy and cringe-inducing, and feels like it was made in a hurry…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 Jan 2021

Resembling a patched together sketch of an idea, and a thrown-together filmed play, set (mostly) inside a house, Locked Down should have just…

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By Quinci Legardye (5) for Polygon (677) on 15 Jan 2021

Rather than being depressing or overly nihilistic, Locked Down fills the situation with a dry humor and slight absurdity which, combined with…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 15 Jan 2021

In the end, we’re left with a gimmick movie that doesn’t come off, an accurate-enough artifact of the global lockdown of last spring that…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC (67) on 15 Jan 2021

Doug Liman’s gimmicky dud about a London diamond heist set during the pandemic falsely assumes that quarantined audiences are panting to…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 Jan 2021

It works far better as a partial document of life under lockdown than as a genre mash-up…

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By Chris Agar (104) for Screen Rant (892) on 14 Jan 2021

Locked Down is an average drama that relies on the strengths of its two lead actors to help elevate it above its various shortcomings…

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By Natalia Winkelman (145) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Jan 2021

The best that Locked Down has to offer, at least while we remain in the throes of a deadly crisis, is a window into a luxurious space to quarantine…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 13 Jan 2021

It’s a daring mix of genres, but it works, as though Noah Baumbach had been called in to do a rewrite on “How to Steal a Million.” Steven…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Jan 2021

Locked Down, at times, generates an uneasy mixture of intimacy and showiness, yet it’s a kick to watch a couple of actors who are this terrific…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Jan 2021

If Hathaway and Ejiofor are sometimes saddled with talky theatrical monologues that sound far more like a screenwriter's fever dream than the…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Jan 2021

If you’re looking for two hours of not-quite-escape, the solipsism of Locked Down has real charm and entertainment value, not least in its…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 13 Jan 2021

COVID-19 serves as a fitting backdrop for an amiable romp about the freedoms we take for granted, and the confines that dictated our lives…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 13 Jan 2021

Hathaway and Ejiofor seem excited to play edgier, less nice people than they often get the chance to, and the early scenes of them locking…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Jan 2021

Maybe this all works, accidentally or not, as a time capsule of very contemporary irritation…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 13 Jan 2021

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…

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