‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg Leads an Expanded Team of Magicians in a Worthy Third Sleight-of-Hand Thriller

Hit-of-the-week popcorn movies are all about escapism, but they’re almost never about play. That’s the appeal of the “Now You See Me” films. They’ve got elements of action and crime and snarky screwball teamwork, but they’re like the “Fast and Furious” films with the speedy car chases replaced by sleight-of-hand deception. They’re hybrid magic-trick genre movies that entertain you by making your eyes widen a bit, the way a good magician does. They indulge in the play of playing you.

The third and latest entry in the series, “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” fools us for a while into thinking it’s a heist movie, as our trusty team of flimflam conjurers, the Four Horsemen, are joined by three next-generation illusionists — wouldn’t you know it, they’re social-activist magicians! — to steal the largest diamond in the world, a fist-size chunk of ice known as the Heart Diamond.