After seeing some people's lists, I honestly have to wonder why some of you bother watching movies at all as you seem to hate just about every type of movie out there.
For me, personally, the most recent film that I've heard people do nothing but rave about is the Illusionist. I swear there is no way I watched the same movie as other people, as there is nothing special about that movie at all. The acting is tame, the plot cliche, and the twist was so obvious that I don't think you could even call it a twist. The entire story was a drawn out version of those little tales that get told to give a character a backstory in movies (which by the way, this movie actually has one in it even), only filled with pointless suspense (if you can call it that) and magic tricks.
I'm going to watch the Prestige sometime and compare them myself, but as it is, other than my roomate, who pretty much agrees with me about the Illusionist, everyone else says the Illusionist is better than the Prestige.