10. She’s the Man (2006)
In 2006, Channing Tatum broke out as a body-popping dangerous boy on the street dance film Step Up, a really perfect showcase for the limber abilities he had honed whereas working as a stripper. However the identical 12 months this goofy boarding-school comedy – a free adaptation of Twelfth Evening, with Amanda Bynes disguised as a dude – helped to cement his future model. As jacked soccer jock Duke, you would possibly assume Tatum could be a sexist lug. As a substitute, he stands out as a delicate confidant who may also land a severe scissor-kick.
9. Logan Fortunate (2017)
Alabama-born, Florida-raised Tatum can play an genuine redneck when required, and there’s a lot of southern-fried flavour to this North Carolina-set heist comedy directed by his Magic Mike collaborator, Steven Soderbergh. Tatum’s laid-off building employee cooks up an audacious plan to tear off a Nascar race with the assistance of his brother (Adam Driver) and an oddball safecracker (Daniel Craig). Craig’s proto-Benoit Blanc/Foghorn Leghorn efficiency obtained the headlines, however Tatum sturdily carries the movie.
8. The E book of Life (2014)
From the yeti comedy Smallfoot to his recurring position as Superman in varied Lego films, voiceover work has been a dependable Tatum sideline. On this visually ingenious Mexican fable he’s a beefy braggart vying with Diego Luna for the love of Zoe Saldana. Whereas audiences are imagined to aspect with Luna’s heartsick mariachi, it’s laborious to not be charmed by a hero so self-involved that he yells his personal title as a battle cry: “JOAQUIN!”
7. Canine (2022)
Together with his strapping physique and buzzcut, Tatum has performed troopers all through his display profession, from desertion drama Cease-Loss to the crappy GI Joe franchise. For his recent directorial debut, he solid himself as an injured employees sergeant so determined to rejoin his previous unit that he agrees to ferry a traumatised army canine cross-country for a comrade’s funeral. By the tip of their journey, you need to undertake them each.
6. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Lengthy earlier than the present rash of affection letters to film-making, the Coen brothers delivered this dizzying Hollywood farce populated by a assassin’s row of expertise together with George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton (twice). As a Gene Kelly-style hoofer with a dark secret, Tatum will get a show-stopping musical quantity however can also be the architect of one of many movie’s greatest laughs (it entails a submarine, a lapdog and a bag of ransom money).
5. Preventing (2009)
He seems nice in a vest so it feels as if Tatum must be a pure motion star. But in some way take a look at balloons comparable to president-saving, shoot-em-up White Home Down and sci-fi souffle Jupiter Ascending by no means appeared to attach with audiences. This early bare-knuckle effort – certainly one of three collaborations with writer-director Dito Montiel – is scrappy sufficient to really feel genuine, as Tatum roughhouses his approach by the NYC struggle scene below the nervy tutelage of Terrence Howard.
4. Foxcatcher (2014)
Steve Carell and his prosthetic conk obtained the Oscar consideration however this Eighties-set true crime story – revolving round creepy philanthropist John du Pont’s hands-on makes an attempt to mould an Olympic wrestling squad – would by no means get off the bottom have been it not for Tatum’s burdened efficiency on the centre. As a determined former champ on the lookout for course, Tatum holds his personal in a cold, upsetting psychodrama.
3. The Misplaced Metropolis (2022)
“How may I be embarrassed about one thing that makes folks this completely happy?” muses hunky romance novel cowl mannequin Alan, AKA Sprint (Tatum). Equally this Romancing the Stone-style jungle adventure is a masterclass in giving folks what they need. It steers laborious into its star’s sleepy-eyed himbo model and will get loads of comedic mileage out of a neck pillow because the lovestruck Sprint rushes to rescue widowed creator Sandra Bullock from the clutches of Daniel Radcliffe’s diabolical billionaire.
2. 22 Soar Avenue (2014)
Tatum and his 21 Soar Avenue bro Jonah Hill reunite for this enjoyably daft motion comedy follow-up which, within the usually meta model of Lego Film administrators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, endlessly pokes enjoyable at lazy sequels. If Tatum’s undercover cop, Jenko, struggled when infiltrating highschool within the unique, he’s on a lot surer floor in school, bonding with dimbulb quarterback Zook (Wyatt Russell) and cracking open beer bottles together with his biceps, eye, ear and (it’s closely implied) penis.
1. Magic Mike XXL (2015)
A stripper with a coronary heart of gold and buns of metal, Magic Mike will at all times be Tatum’s signature position, not least as a result of it’s primarily based on his personal formative experiences in showbiz. For all of the franchise’s sexy razzle-dazzle, the primary movie now appears surprisingly downbeat, whereas the approaching threequel is a London-set victory lap that cedes a lot of the highlight to Salma Hayek. The center instalment – a shaggy US street journey with a likable gang of muscled hunks stuffed right into a transformed meals truck – is a laid-back, low-stakes pleasure. Amid a stack of spectacular dance scenes, watching wannabe furnishings restorer Mike rediscovering his mojo in real time when Ginuwine’s intercourse jam Pony comes on his workshop radio is cinema at its slinkiest.
