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Magic Mike

Work all day. Work it all night.

2012 · 1h 50m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Steven Soderbergh

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Overview

Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

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78%
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Fresh

Soderbergh has created a spicy yet lucid, surgingly high-energy yet smartly modernistic musical.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

Tatum, whose talents have been the subject of debate, also makes Mike genuinely affecting, not to mention articulate within the bounds of a sketchy script.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Fresh

Does a better job of mixing Chippendales-style guilty pleasures with reality-based cautionary tales than you might expect.

Eric D. Snider, Film.com
Fresh

The dance numbers, choreographed by Allison Faulk, are inventive and athletic, but not really erotic; Soderbergh never lets you forget that, for these men, dancing is above all a job.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Magic Mike has a conventional structure, yet a teasing question percolates beneath: If selling yourself is as much fun as this movie makes it look, what could be wrong with it?

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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