A version of this essay originally ran in conjunction with Magic Mike’s Last Dance’s arrival on digital streaming. It has been updated and reposted in conjunction with the film’s arrival on Netflix.

Magic Mike’s Last Dance isn’t nearly the crowd-pleaser its predecessors were. However, despite this seeming step down from the crime-adjacent Magic Mike and the affirming bro-trip of Magic Mike XXL, ...

Back in 2012 when Steven Soderbergh directed the first “Magic Mike” based loosely upon star Channing Tatum’s experiences in Tampa, FL, no one could have anticipated the actual empire that the film ...

Max (Salma Hayek Pinault) convinces Mike (Channing Tatum) to join her in London in Magic Mike's Last Dance. Magic Mike's Last Dance, which Soderbergh directed from a script by Reid Carolin, isn't ...

If Magic Mike was a movie about the realities of male stripping, Magic Mike XXL was a movie about the fantasy of male stripping. In bringing back director Steven Soderbergh for part three (Gregory ...