Bill Skarsgård has continued his Rotten Tomatoes hot streak with his latest thriller. The actor, who is the son of Mamma Mia! and Thor star Stellan Skarsgård and the brother of True Blood and Big Little Lies’ Alexander Skarsgård, had his breakout role when he played Pennywise in 2017’s It and its 2019 sequel It: Chapter Two. Since then, he has taken on a number of roles in prominent projects including playing Zeitgeist in Deadpool 2, Kro in Eternals, and Marquis Vincent de Gramont in John Wick: Chapter 4.
Recent Bill Skarsgård movies have had a scattershot response from critics. While the twisty horror-thriller Barbarian (92%) and the action sequel John Wick: Chapter 4 (94%) earned him two Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes scores in a row in 2022 and 2023 respectively, he followed that by starring in a pair of 2024 action movies that earned splats, namely Boy Kills World (58%) and The Crow (21%). However, he closed out the year strong by playing the title role in the Oscar-nominated Nosferatu (84%), which was also Certified Fresh.
Locked Has Debuted With A Strong Score On Rotten Tomatoes

The 2025 Thriller Stars Bill Skarsgård And Anthony Hopkins

Locked has earned another Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score for Bill Skarsgård. The new 2025 thriller, which was helmed by Brightburn director David Yarovesky, is a remake of the Argentinian movie 4×4 and follows carjacker Eddie Barrish (Bill Skarsgård) when he is locked in a luxury vehicle that he attempts to steal. The heavily modified car is secretly a trap operated by a mysterious Jigsaw-esque villain (Anthony Hopkins), who can control it remotely. Reviews for the upcoming Locked have dropped just two days before the movie’s theatrical debut.

Locked was produced by The Evil Dead’s Sam Raimi.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official score for Locked. Although the score could fluctuate as more reviews are added, 13 different critics’ reviews have been aggregated to give the movie a solidly Fresh 77% score with an average rating of 6 out of 10. This continues the star’s critical hot streak after Nosferatu reversed his run of two consecutive splats.
What This Means For Bill Skarsgård

He Can Keep His Streak Going

Because Locked is a slightly smaller release akin to Boy Kills World, the Bill Skarsgård movie indicates that he doesn’t need to star in a major wide-release title in order to earn the admiration of critics. That could spell good news for the potential continuation of this streak, as he has a variety of movies in the pipeline. These include the Hugh Jackman epic The Death of Robin Hood, the Nicolas Cage sequel Lords of War, and the Gus Van Sant crime drama Dead Man’s Wire, all of which could continue to earn Fresh scores for the actor.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes

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Locked

6/10

Release Date

March 21, 2025

Runtime

95 minutes

Director

David Yarovesky

Writers

Michael Arlen Ross

Producers

Bill Skarsgård, Trevor Osmond, Divya Shahani, David Kopple, J.J. Caruth, Patrick Josten, Abeer Thapar, Amar Thapar, Jordan Wagner, Tyler Gould, Zainab Azizi, Eric Rebalkin, Paul W. Hazen, Daniel Govia, Majd Nassif, Eric Gold, Michael J. Rothstein, Javier Méndez, Mariano Cohn, Martin J. Barab, Sam Raimi, Walter Josten, Arianne Fraser, Gastón Duprat