Just when you feel confident you know who's being scammed in Confidence, director James Foley pulls another shell game.

Like David Mamet's Heist, Frank Oz's The Score and, most recently, Neil Jordan's The Good Thief, Confidence is a wily drama about con men who con each other.
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Confidence is a nifty film about a shifty con job. When this movie genre succeeds, it is rarely because of the plot, which in this case is convoluted nonsense about a money scam in which twists, double crosses and outright lies mess up the con men on screen and the audience watching them.

In the best con job flicks, such as The Sting or more recently The Good Thief, the plot is usually incidental to the interaction of richly-drawn, quirky characters.
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