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Complete Unknown

You are who you say you are.

2016 · 1h 30m · R Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Joshua Marston

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Overview

Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.

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48%
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Rotten

Complete Unknown is the perfect case study of what happens when bad movies rope in good actors.

Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail
Rotten

Writer-director Joshua Marston gives Shannon a chance to shine as a character more pedestrian than the ones he usually plays, though the story is a little too thesis driven to build any dramatic momentum.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Despite its flaws, "Complete Unknown" raises provocative questions about the nature of identity and whether it's more a comfort or a trap.

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh

Shannon is usually playing human question marks in the movies, so it's a twist here to see him playing the "normal" guy, except Shannon is too unconventional an actor to play anything in the normal range.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh

The movie brushes up against far-fetched soap-opera scenarios. The ending isn't altogether satisfying. Yet Weisz, playful and seductive, utterly confident, disarmingly vulnerable, delivers a performance that makes you forget all that.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

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