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Identity

When 10 strangers become stranded in a remote desert motel on a stormy night, they are murdered one by one. A man is on trial for a series of savage murders at the same time - and the events are somehow linked. John Cusack leads a cast that includes Ray Liotta, Rebecca De Mornay and Alfred Molina. James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted) directs.

A O Scott

The New York Times

'Identity is a reasonably well-executed thriller. It suffers not from awkwardness or silliness - which would make it more fun - but rather from its air-brushed, expensive pretentiousness. Like last year's Panic Room, the spring box office success which Sony may be hoping to repeat, Identity is a dressed-up B picture, a hunk of cheese trying to sneak into the gourmet food aisle of the supermarket.'

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

'A lot of movies are intriguing for the first two acts and then go on autopilot with a formula ending. Identity is a rarity, a movie that seems to be on autopilot for the first two acts and then reveals that it was not, with a third act that causes us to rethink everything that has gone before. Ingenious.'

Kirk Honeycutt

salon.com

'The actors appear to enjoy playing these fanatical characters without the usual worries of nuance and subtlety. There is a jokey quality in much of this emoting. But Mangold, clearly uncomfortable with tongue-in-cheek humour, opts for the super serious. Which Identity never earns.'

Confidence

Con artist Jake Vig's (Edward Burns, above left) latest scam becomes messier than usual when his victim turns out to be the accountant of a mafia kingpin (Dustin Hoffman, right). Directed by James Foley (Glengarry

Glen Ross).

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

'Confidence is a flawless exercise about con games, and that is precisely its failing: it is an exercise. It fails to make us care, even a little, about the characters and what happens to them. What a shame that such a well-made movie is never able to convince us it is anything more than merely well-made.'

A O Scott

The New York Times

'If Confidence was made by people who have seen too many movies, it seems to be aimed at people who have seen too few. It offers stale lessons in vocabulary and technique, all of them easily gleaned on a trip to the video store, as if they were choice bits of inside knowledge.'

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

'The movie does have a large and capable cast and, in James Foley, a director with a taste for visual flourishes. They all so fell in love with the script by Doug Jung they didn't notice how much a derivative retread it is of superior material such as The Grifters and even The Sting.'



''What the critics say''