You know millennial nostalgia has reached a dangerous peak when there’s a new “Now You See Me” film in theaters. The last time we encountered the merry band of Robin Hood prankster magicians known as the Horsemen, it was the Obama era, when “Now You See Me 2,” the sequel to the hit 2013 film, appeared in theaters in the summer of 2016. Were we ever so young?

Back then, the Horsemen, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and either Isla Fisher or Lizzy Caplan as the token girl magician, used the principles of magic for altruistic purposes, redistributing wealth and saving the world from various evil tech overlords.

The world’s in even worse shape now, so why not do magic about it? It couldn’t hurt, and there’s nothing else we can do to exert any modicum of control over b

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