MAGIC Mike XXL
hat can transcend all language, cultural, and social barriers to deliver joy? Please reserve all answers,, the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 male entertainer-focused drama that looked like a film ready for girls-night-out screenings but was actually about post-global financial crisis life, was initially shrug-worthy. But is a Trojan of a different kind–one of the most glorious surprises of moviegoing in recent memory, that wasn’t just made for a girls-night-out label, but indeed reinvented what that means and what it can do.
