The Prestige
No consensus on The Prestige. Across 653 matchups it sits at 49% — 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.
Even round by round: 48% opening, 48% semis, 56% finals. The deadlock isn't just an overall average — it holds at every stage of the bracket.
The closest rivalry is with The Dark Knight at 49% — a matchup tight enough that a handful of votes could flip the lead. 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.
Best of Nolan: The Prestige clears Interstellar in the opening round and dispatches Inception at 72% 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 (69%).
#5 of 8 in Best of Nolan.
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