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, ...

The Illusionist (Yari Film Group Releasing) is almost— almost—too good to be true. It’s an exquisitely crafted period picture that keeps promising more and more as it goes along—smarter ideas, richer ...

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Last week, Sylvain Chomet got an early — and Jacques Tati a very late — Christmas present. The New York Film Critics Circle, the nation’s oldest organization of movie reviewers, chose The Illusionist ...

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The Illusionist, directed by Neil Burger, screenplay by Burger from a short story by Steven Millhauser The Illusionist is an attractively done piece of work, that leaves a relatively small impression.

Steven Millhauser’s 1990 short-story collection, “The Barnum Museum,” ends with “Eisenheim the Illusionist,” the mysterious tale of a brilliant magician whose most successful stage illusions are left ...

“We’ve all heard of dinner theater, but I thought that this was a way of pushing it further — by integrating illusion and mentalism, and by making the audience the crux of the experience.” The above ...

Great Britain could have lost the war on Oct. 17, 1941. On that day, Spanish police in Madrid arrested a British man for dressing as a woman out for a night on the town. The Spaniards took two ...