Now You See Me, Now You Don't (12A)

Nearly a decade on from the last film, the Four Horsemen — whose numbers now swell to five or even eight — are back.

Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) and his super-pals return — including pork-pie-hat-wearing hypnotist Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), assistant-turned-escape artist Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and sleight-of-hand trickster Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), dispatching baddies with well-thrown cards.

But the quartet are tricked into a testy reunion when a message from The Eye brings Atlas to the doorstep of a younger trio of similarly gifted magicians: Their task: steal an enormous diamond from money-laundering arms dealer Veronika Vanderberg (Rosamund Pike), a mission mostly in sync with the new kids’ proclivity for wealth redistribution, albeit more neatly traditional in its choice of evildoer.

The charmingly silly idea of magicians using their illusions to pull off elaborate heists has now overblown into Fast & Furious style levels of ludicrousness. Thankfully, the actors seem specifically delighted to be in a series that doesn’t require a lot of fake gravitas, just straight-enough faces when someone chimes that in these troubling times, we need magic more than ever.