The Prestige Reviews
Common Sense Media
Rival magicians battle in smart, dark period tale.
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| Original Score: 4/5
MovieFreak.com
Four cheers for writer and director Christopher Nolan, who never ceases to engage his audience from beginning to end with his dark tales.
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| Original Score: 9/10
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
The acting in this film is simply the cream of the crop, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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| Original Score: 4/4
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| Original Score: 8/10
Movie Metropolis
As the magicians attempt various versions of "The Transported Man," you can't help but feel transported yourself to a time when magic was the big entertainment.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Sci-Fi Movie Page
You wouldn't have guessed it from The Prestige's marketing, but this movie about rival Victorian magicians is actually a science fiction film . . .
In Film Australia
| Original Score: 4/5
Top Critic
Movie Habit
Touchstone didn't put a lot of effort into the supplements; it wouldn't have been hard to conjure up a lot more material.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Trades
I just can't get over the sense of feeling cheated by the insertion of science/fantasy as the pivotal plot point -- an alien invasion would have seemed just as out of place.
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| Original Score: B-
Reel.com
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Metropolis
...it is easy for the viewer to get caught up in the deceptions, especially as the movie builds slowly, mysteriously, and then rises in intensity.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Horror.com
DVD extra 'The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan' is not what you might think.
DVDTalk.com
The Prestige is A Bug's Life to The Illusionist's Antz, the intelligent Deep Impact to its silly Armageddon.
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| Original Score: 4/5
