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Avg. Critic Score: 64 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Something fresh, clever and confident. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    It's not art, but it's fun artfully done. And as long as you're paying less than the price of a cheapo motel for the night, it's worth checking into. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Fine escapist fare with a saving sense of humor and an underlying premise that, when revealed, proves to be arguably plausible even if a reach. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The violence and mayhem are constant, though the movie's style is refreshingly old-fashioned -- scream- and laughter-inducing, rather than coldly repulsive in the modern fashion. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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, how simple and yet how devious the solution is. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The hardest work falls to Cusack, a subtle actor with a valuable gift for conveying the sadness and loneliness beneath the skin of even the most jaded and self-contained men-about-town. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    With moments of mind-bending creepiness, the film has potential, but eventually it devolves into merely a head-scratcher. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Some fancy footwork in the writing and directing can't disguise the hoary "Ten Little Indians" origins of Identity. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    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. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    It's an exasperating exercise in B-movie hokum and screenwriter's gimmickry. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Scary beyond belief serial killer thriller.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this is a very scary movie with a lot of intense peril and some grisly and upsetting deaths. A character is a prostitute and there are some sexual references, including a discussion of a possible out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Characters drink, smoke, and use strong language.
  • Families can talk about the enduring appeal of movies about serial killers.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Gruesome deaths. Very intense and graphic peril.
  • sex false3 Sex: Character is a prostitute, some sexual references
  • language false5 Language: Some very strong language
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking

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