Film: Stripping down the US dream

Reviewed: Magic Mike directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rating: 4/5. Detachment directed by Tony Kaye. Rating: 3/5.

Channing Tatum in Magic Mike.
Channing Tatum in Magic Mike.

Reviewed: Magic Mike

**Directed by Steven Soderbergh**

**Nationwide, cert 16**

**Rating:** 4/5

In 2010, Steven Soderbergh declared that he was about to retire from filmmaking. Since then, he has released three films: low-budget, naturalistic examinations of shadowy, unseen worlds.

There was the panic-stricken epidemic thriller Contagion, which brought us inside the laboratory as a virus threatens to end the world; the clandestine arena of international espionage in Haywire; and now ...