Now You See Me 3 Smashes Franchise Record With Rotten Tomatoes Score
Before it even hits theaters on November 14, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t has pulled off a franchise-best trick, premiering with a 67% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes—the highest in the series.
File this under: I did not have this on my 2025 bingo card. The third Now You See Me movie just scored the best Rotten Tomatoes number the series has ever managed, and it hits theaters November 14 in the US. Yes, the magician-heist franchise might actually be on a mini hot streak.
Critics are (finally) into it
Rotten Tomatoes has Now You See Me: Now You Don't sitting at 67% from its premiere wave of reviews, which is a franchise high. For context, the series has had a bumpy ride with critics until now:
- Now You See Me (2013) - 51%
- Now You See Me 2 (2016) - 34%
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) - 67%
That is a pretty sharp upswing after years of mixed-to-dismal scores. If that holds, the movie may be the crowd-pleaser this series has been trying to be since day one.
The twist everyone is whispering about
Jesse Eisenberg, back as J. Daniel Atlas (the de facto leader of the Four Horsemen), has been hyping an ending twist that he calls genuinely brilliant. Not exactly a shocker for a magic caper, but the way he talks about it makes it sound like more than a simple rug-pull.
"There is a genuinely brilliant, incredibly effective twist in the movie... It will blow your mind... I read the script three times, and I was totally wrong."
He says early test audiences went, in his words, nuts. Also genuinely funny: Eisenberg admits he did not understand the twist at first and needed director Ruben Fleischer to walk him through it. His read on the whole thing: either audiences are really sharp, or he is terrible with plots. Honestly, both can be true.
When can you watch at home?
If you are skipping theaters, brace for a wait. Lionsgate typically takes its time before putting movies on streaming. The studio usually drops titles on Starz about 5 to 6 months after theatrical release. The average lag is around 165 days, sometimes stretching to 180. There are rare exceptions: Ballerina hit Starz in just 111 days, which was unusually fast for them.
Assuming the usual pattern, expect Now You See Me: Now You Don't to land on Starz around March or April 2026. If Lionsgate speeds things up, great, but I would not bank on it.
Now You See Me: Now You Don't opens in the US on November 14. Between the new RT high and whatever that twist is, I am more curious than I expected to be. You in?