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.

In 2012, the world of male stripping took center stage in Magic Mike. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Magic Mike stars Channing Tatum as Mike Lane, an aspiring entrepreneur who works odd jobs as a ...

Channing Tatum returned to the big screen this weekend in “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third installment in his film series about an exotic dancer who longs for respect, love — and possibly a career ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOTTOM LINE Superficially feminist and supremely silly, but Tatum and Hayek Pinault nearly save the show. In “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the male body succumbs to the female gaze and becomes a vehicle ...

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 ...

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, ...

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