Steven Soderbergh returns to the series as director, but that fact plus Channing Tatum’s physical magnetism can’t save a script that doesn’t have fresh ideas. There’s a clarity of purpose in the first ...

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.

Nick is a writer who works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has previously written for Indiewire, The Playlist, and Little White Lies. The grand finale of Magic Mike’s Last Dance, whatever you ...

The Magic Mike franchise is one that has befuddled and delighted audiences since its inception back in 2012. The film brought Channing Tatum back into the dancing world as Mike, a handyman and ...

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 ...

Running time: 112 minutes. Rated R (sexual material and language). In theaters Feb. 10. The preposterous finale to the stripper trilogy baffles right from the beginning, when an eloquent British teen ...

Salma Hayek and Channing Tatum hit the floor in ''Magic Mike's Last Dance." Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Male stripper turned furniture designer Mike Lane (Tatum) thought he left his ...

The “Magic Mike” saga was a big bag of fun while it lasted. And it lasted up to — but not including — the third and maybe-final film in the series, “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” That’s a frustrating ...

The point, the purpose — the raison d’être, if you’re feeling fancy — of the Magic Mike male-stripper movies is catering to women’s fantasies. As the series has expanded from the working-class grit of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Channing Tatum reprises his role as Mike Lane, and Steven Soderbergh returns to the helm with a script from Reid Carolin, who also ...

Magic Mike's Last Dance, which Soderbergh directed from a script by Reid Carolin, isn't nearly as sexy or as deliriously entertaining as its predecessors — or, I assume, as the Magic Mike Live shows ...