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The Prestige

Coin Flip Wins almost exactly half the time
2006 · Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction · Christopher Nolan

No consensus on The Prestige. Across 569 matchups it sits at 50% — exactly where 50% puts you, winning and losing in equal measure. Nolan's puzzle-box thriller rewards the exact kind of obsessive attention that bracket voters bring to their choices. Every rewatch reveals new architecture, and that inexhaustibility keeps it from ever feeling like a spent pick.

Synopsis

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Round 1
48.9%
Semifinals
50%
80/160
Finals
57.5%
Where it thrives

Even round by round: 49% opening, 50% semis, 58% finals. The deadlock isn't just an overall average — it holds at every stage of the bracket.

The matchup with Batman Begins is a genuine coin flip at 50% — neither film has found an edge. On the other end of the spectrum: Se7en at 80% is a comfortable win, while Fight Club at 18% is the matchup The Prestige can't crack.

Closest Rival
Dominates
Se7en
80%
Tenet
78.3%
Inception
73.9%
Kryptonite

Best of Nolan: The Prestige clears Interstellar in the opening round and dispatches Inception at 69% in the final. A convincing start-to-finish run.

#7 of 10 for Christopher Nolan. Not every film in a filmography can lead — The Prestige competes in the middle of a catalog headed by The Dark Knight Rises (63%).

BingeBracket Record
50%
Win Rate
#47 of 100 in Drama #18 of 43 from the 2000s #7 of 10 Christopher Nolan films
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
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#5 of 8 in Best of Nolan.

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Inception #2
Interstellar #3
Oppenheimer #4
The Prestige #5
Memento #6
Dunkirk #7
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