Director Ruben Fleischer heard a loud gasp.

In the very first screening of “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” one particularly shocked moviegoer had an audible response to the heist film’s third-act twist. (Don’t worry, we won’t ruin it!)

“It was one of the most gratifying moments of the whole process,” Fleischer says via Zoom the morning after the New York City premiere. “I was so pleased the audience was invested enough to react.”

Cinematic trickery is, of course, the whole point of the “Now You See Me” franchise. But Fleischer is new to the series. (The prior two installments were directed by Louis Leterrier and Jon M. Chu.) Set 10 years after the sequel, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher return in the third entry as the thieving illusionists known as the

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