'Magic Mike': It's a living for Steven Soderbergh's troupe of male strippers ✭✭✭ 1/2

It's crazy to oversell "Magic Mike,"or fluff it up into something its makers never intended. It is not a major motion picture. It is not searing melodrama, though in story outline terms — the least interesting terms by which to engage with director Steven Soderbergh's loose, funky and blithely engaging workplace comedy — it resembles "Showgirls" with showboys, though without the hysteria or the punitive humiliation.

Michael Phillips

June 28, 2012