1. A milestone film for both actor and film-maker, Locke is extraordinary viewing.
2. Locke, commendable as sections may be, just sorta runs out of gas.
3. Every look, facial twitch and sentence Hardy delivers is note-perfect and is the acting display to beat early in 2014.
4. Tom Hardy gives a brilliant performance in this utterly wrenching, low-fi, high-concept indie drama.
5. A marvelous exercise in keep-calm-and-drive-on restraint.
6. "Locke," with one man in a car for 85 minutes, is incredibly accomplished filmmaking.
7. Wearing a beard and a Welsh accent that fits him as comfortably as a well-worn glove, Hardy offers a subtle yet riveting portrait in noble obstinacy.
8. Taut one-man drama explores faulty human relationships.
9. In Locke, we ride shotgun with Tom Hardy as he makes a fateful nighttime drive to London. He is the only person we see on screen for the entire film. There are worse ways to spend 90 minutes.
10. Somehow, miraculously, Knight and Hardy turn that car into the only place you want to be for every one of those minutes.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
A one-man show set in a single confined location, Locke demands a powerful performance -- and gets it from a never-more-compelling Tom Hardy.