Now You See Me 2

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

Critics largely dismissed the sequel as a step down from an already shaky original, finding its plot convolutions more exhausting than fun and its sleight-of-hand aesthetic wearing thin. Audiences were considerably more forgiving, and the one point of near-consensus was that Lizzy Caplan's addition livened things up — though whether that was enough to save the film is exactly where critics split.