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Locked Down combines a heist caper, a relationship drama, and pandemic-era timeliness to produce a film that's frustratingly less than the sum of its parts. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

In LOCKED DOWN, 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.

Genre:

comedy, romance
Original Language:

English
Director:

Doug Liman
Producer:

P.J. Van Sandwijk, Alison Winter, Michael Lesslie
Writer:

Steven Knight
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 14, 2021

Cast & Crew

Anne Hathaway
Linda

Chiwetel Ejiofor
Paxton

Stephen Merchant

Mindy Kaling

Lucy Boynton

Dulé Hill

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Critic Reviews for Locked Down

All Critics (87) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (47)

It chips away, in small ways, at the idea of being locked down and unable to express freedom...it's about spending time with these actors, which makes it worthwhile...

March 2, 2021 | Full Review…

tt stern-enzi
WXIX-TV (Cincinnati, OH)
It strains to dramatize the emotional emptiness of isolation and, instead, uses it as a facile premise.

January 25, 2021 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
"Locked Down" is inevitably, and intentionally, of the moment. But I hope some of its off-the-cuff spirit lasts after the pandemic.

January 20, 2021 | Full Review…

Jake Coyle
Associated Press
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.

January 19, 2021 | Full Review…

David Sims
The Atlantic
Like a play in the worst possible way. It feels stagy, claustrophobic, and overacted.

January 16, 2021 | Full Review…

Claudia Puig
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Quaint and bizarre... It feels outdated, even though it's just coming out.

January 16, 2021 | Full Review…

Amy Nicholson
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
With better writing, that pivot would be a fun twist, but Locked Down fails to pull it off. That said, the last 30 minutes of the movie are imminently more fun than what came before it.

February 18, 2021 | Full Review…

Blair Stenvick
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Locked Down takes us back to a pretty rotten time - a time we've not yet truly been able to put in the rearview - but it has a pretty good time doing it.

February 14, 2021 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Mark Meszoros
The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Squeezes in a lot of COVID-era issues, from company layoffs, to pot-banging tributes and homemade sourdough bread. The film is amusing partly because it hits on these resonant COVID-tropes. That and some nice stunt casting, makes this rom-com/heist fun.

February 13, 2021 | Rating: B-minus | Full Review…

Karen Gordon
Original Cin
Despite Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor having a good time, the plot unravels too much at the end to the point of ridiculousness.

February 8, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Lauren Veneziani
DC Film Girl
Much of the blame lies in Steven Knight's schizoid script, an amalgam of contradictions that is filled with all-too-convenient implausibilities to fully be taken at face value.

February 7, 2021 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Jordan Ruimy
World of Reel
Ridiculous as it is, this protracted setup gets at an essential truth of an amateur movie heist: The plan is a flirtation, loaded with both the promise and the threat of consummation.

February 5, 2021 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Jesse Hassenger
Consequence of Sound