Wonderful film. I highly recommend this period piece for an excellent story and wonderful acting. I took my almost 10 year old and she loved it. There is some violence and a tasteful love scene. It's for mature kids 10 and up.

This is an excellent period based mystery/suspense movie for young teens and up. If the "bad behavior" the critic speaks of is taken in this period context, it is fairly mild. There is one very mild love (kissing) scene, a tyrant ruling character and a little bloodshed, but overall nothing indelible. The intensity in this film comes from the very clever main illusion, which involves raising the dead on stage and hearing the stories of their deaths in their own words. There is also tension between the Illusionist and the Tyrant, who vie for the same woman. Classic struggle of love in a class-oriented society. Fortunately, all is revealed at the end of the movie, so there should not be any lost sleep. Happy ending for the main characters, who (spoiler alert) manage to take down the tyrant and are together in the end. Excellent and highly entertaining mystery.

A clean enjoyable film - any teen or adult that is into magic & mystery would enjoy this. The "sex" scene is handled very tastefully. Good story. Another great role for Paul Giamatti. The only caution is that there are some spiritual undertones that may make some in the audience feel uneasy.

Magical, suspenseful, and has some great twists! You really don't know what is going to happen next in this supernatural mystery...one of the best mvoies of 2006.