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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 31 Aug 2006

While it has handsome production values and a talented cast, this is the type of shallow, vapid movie that tricks you into thinking it's better…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 31 Aug 2006

The story may be less than credible, but the performances are mostly good, and Giamatti makes an especially strong showing…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 31 Aug 2006

The picture feels like an entertaining short story, competently executed at undue length, and that's its origin…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 31 Aug 2006

The reason to see it is to see two fine American actors at the top of their game, and the lush production values…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers (80) on 30 Aug 2006

Coming near the close of a summer full of movie superheroes and remakes, 'The Illusionist' is a film buff's treat…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 30 Aug 2006

like a made-for-TV movie that asks nothing more of you than to figure out its own particular brand of slight-of-hand…

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By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 30 Aug 2006

You don't have to have spent more than five minutes in the presence of a professional magician to recognize that Edward Norton has their entire…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 29 Aug 2006

For a good while, The Illusionist is topflight entertainment ... [before] morphing into a mystery that's agonizingly easy to figure out…

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By Kim Voynar (107) for Cinematical (752) on 26 Aug 2006

Like a fun house mirror, Burger's story is never quite what you think it is; just when you think you have things figured out, you don't…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 25 Aug 2006

This lavishly romantic tale of magic and mystery is utterly spellbinding, teasing and tantalizing you with the truth while juggling smoke and mirrors…

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By Janos Gereben (77) for Entertainment Insiders (294) on 25 Aug 2006

Director Neil Burger populates those splendid settings adequately, with individual performances filling in most of the small holes in the story…

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By Phoebe Flowers (256) for South Florida Sun-Sentinel (746) on 24 Aug 2006

A movie whose charm and wit sneak up on you…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 24 Aug 2006

The movie also is designed to be an actor's showcase for Norton and Giamatti, two of the best movie actors of their generation…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Oregonian (1,550) on 24 Aug 2006

The Illusionist might trick some moviegoers into thinking it's clever, deft, old-fashioned fun…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 24 Aug 2006

Underneath its hocus-pocus is a compelling story, very well told…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 21 Aug 2006

It is a dreamy, rather esoteric melodrama that plays like a fevered nightmare moving along the wispy pillows of a slowly enveloping fog…

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By Joanne Kaufman (79) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 20 Aug 2006

Sewell and Giamatti ham it up as the imperious pretender to the throne and his ambitious but conflicted minion in this uncheesy but entertainingly…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 20 Aug 2006

You might not buy all the twists and turns here, but like a magician's act, it's more fun to go along with it and not to question things too much…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 20 Aug 2006

Screenplay exaggerations and misdirections aside, this is where entertainment lies…

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By Kit Bowen (393) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 20 Aug 2006

Elusive and stunningly rich, The Illusionist, with its big-budget look and indie sensibilities, is a haunting romance wrapped in an enigma…

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