Eisenheim is an adept magician. He reunites with his longtime love, Sophie, by summoning her dead spirit in his magic shows. Sophie and Leopold are initially engaged. But during a heated argument, ...

Thomas Duffy is a graduate of the Pace University New York City campus and has been an avid movie fan all of his life. In college, he interviewed film stars such as Minnie Driver and Richard Dreyfuss ...

This ain’t your average birthday party magician. “”The Illusionist”” hopes to mess with your head with its special effects, but sadly that’s pretty much all it’s got going for it. A period piece set ...

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Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

The French filmmaker Jacques Tati was a latter-day Chaplin with Gallic sensibilities. In just a handful of nearly silent films in the 1950s — 30 years before the Griswolds — his guileless M. Hulot got ...

Although it shares a title with the hit 2006 thriller, this "The Illusionist" does not star a goateed Edward Norton romancing luscious Jessica Biel, while Rufus Sewell fumes, royally. But it is a bit ...

Izak Bulten has written for Listverse, ScreenRant, CBR, TheTalko, TheGamer, GameRant, and The Art Of Puzzles. In his free time, he enjoys animating, playing board/video games, and talking about movies ...

A supernatural mystery that combines romance, politics and magic, The Illusionist stars Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as mysterious ...

With the increasing dominance of 3-D animation and CGI technology, “The Illusionist” feels like a novelty in its embrace of all things old-fashioned. And given its acclaim on the festival circuit ...

THE ILLUSIONIST is a story about two paths that cross. An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his ...