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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Befitting a story about magicians, The Prestige is certainly tricky and deceitful. But it's also too elegant and classy to resort to cheap third-act revelations as a way of juicing its story. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An assured bonbon of a film that's thoroughly and deliciously entertaining. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The Prestige gets to be a bit of a grind after a while, despite all the finery and the elegantly detailed atmosphere. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The tit-for-tat scenario ought to be wildly entertaining, but the magic is crude, the characters flyweight, and the story protracted and unpleasant. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The elegant contours of The Illusionist are even more impressive compared with Christopher Nolan's clutter of double and triple crosses in The Prestige. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Jackman and Bale give standout performances as rivals whose mutual obsession destroys all sense of perspective and ruins lives. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The movie is a mind-tickler that makes the viewer actively engage with the story and try to penetrate its elegant sleight-of-hand. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The Prestige's chief pleasure lies in [Jackman and Bale's] increasingly ornate games of deception, which Nolan orchestrates with a showman's aplomb. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Parts of the film really stand out, but taken as a whole, it's a labyrinth of conflicting ideas. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: This is grand, half-crazy fun, and Jackman and Bale are committed to their parts: Genuine madness glints in their eyes. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Passionate, atmospheric entertainment. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: It's more confusing than absorbing. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Prestige is plot-heavy, but it has its moments. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Christopher Nolan's directing skills are in evidence with The Prestige, which follows the long feud of Victorian-era illusionists. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A great contraption of a film, The Prestige is a classy little maze of distractions, obsessions and showmanship, a magic trick of a movie that keeps the viewer mesmerized and then ends with a flourish. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The Prestige isn't art, but it reaps a lot of fun out of the question, How did they do that? Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Prestige is as entertaining as it is intricate and as enticingly mysterious as its title, which comes from the professional magician's lexicon. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Take the movie's first words to heart: watch closely. You'll be well rewarded. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Unfortunately the script is too smart for its own good. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: The film is never less than engaging, though considering that the title The Prestige refers to the moment in a magic act that gives it its "wow" factor, it's kind of a shame that the ultimate "reveal" in the movie is a little too tricky for its own good. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: By describing the structure of a great trick in a movie about a great trick, The Prestige makes a promise it can't keep. Its third act is about as convincing as a photo of a cow jumping over the moon. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A terrific cast, a gloomy tone and a few well-placed little bits of magic and real history bring a long-ago time and place to life. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Watching The Prestige is like observing a magic act where the magician's sleight-of-hand isn't deft enough. The trick almost works, but not quite. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's quite a movie -- atmospheric, obsessive, almost satanic. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Director Nolan's fascination with magic and with tricks in general comes through without question, but he approaches the subject with a seriousness that soon turns grim. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: It doesn't want to explore epistemological questions about the nature of perception and memory; it just wants to mess with our heads. And as a wily, slightly sadistic chess game of a movie, it succeeds quite nicely. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A pleasing puzzle of feuding conjurers played by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: For all the film's murky misdirections, it is very enjoyable. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Not only does it tell you how it's all done, it takes so long about it that you've got time to look up its sleeves and work it out for yourself. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The who's-bilking-whom mind games make for compelling fun, but once the presto moment of The Prestige is revealed, you're left with nothing but shattered illusions. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The Prestige is wonderfully engrossing, darkly mysterious and entertaining from start to finish. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: Pic insists on a depth of human emotion that isn't developed -- protags emerge as one-dimensional, despite the efforts of two of our best leading actors -- amid increasingly elaborate, uninvolving plot mechanizations. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: An oddly lopsided yet compulsively absorbing movie. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Okay, I'll say it: If you see only one magic-at-the-turn-of-the-century movie this year, make it this one. Read more