The Now You See Me franchise has always been a little improbable. That it could even span an entire franchise with its odd premise — what if magicians but also heists? — seems unlikely enough. The first two films, released in 2013 and 2016, got by with incorrigible, goofy charm, playing like kids’ films for adults: sprawling adventures in the manner of The Mummy or National Treasure , a PG concoction of undemanding, studio-mandated peril and cheap jokes that could easily occupy your time, if repeated on ITV2 one rainy evening.

Now, nearly a decade on from the last film, the Four Horsemen — whose numbers now swell to five or even eight, depending on how you're counting — are back. “Everything that disappears, reappears,” as Jesse Eisenberg’s J. Daniel Atlas notes, somewhat in

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