Complete Unknown review: a film about re-creation that just re-creates better films

There’s a sequence deep into Joshua Marston’s awkwardly uneven movie Complete Unknown that highlights what the film could have been. When Jenny (Rachel Weisz) turns up at a birthday party for her old flame Tom (Michael Shannon), he’s flabbergasted. She disappeared from his life 15 years ago without a word, abandoning her family, who looked to him for answers. In the interim, he’s married another woman, moved into his childhood home in Brooklyn, and settled into a life tha