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The Prestige
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #230
- IMDb #37
- Google retired #265
- Rotten Tomatoes #1120
- Metacritic #847
- Letterboxd #110
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2237
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #301
- Metacritic Critics #1829
- Metacritic Audience #55
- Criticker #242
- Douban #81
- Kinopoisk #35
- AlloCiné #94
- Trakt #50
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 66, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 72, everyone else 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a remote military outpost in French Indochina, a cruel and sadistic commander rules over his men and the local prisoners with an iron fist. The tense situation escalates when a new, more humane officer arrives to take command. The two men engage in a brutal battle of wills, their conflict threatening to ignite a rebellion among the oppressed prisoners.
Details
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Writers
- Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
- Based on
- The Prestige by Christopher Priest
- Released
- 19 October 2006
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $109.7M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | Best Cinematography | Wally Pfister | Nominee |
| 79th Academy Awards 2007 | Best Production Design | Nathan Crowley | Nominee |
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