3 w. ago Wicked For Good lands huge Rotten Tomatoes rating as first reviews drop

Wicked: For Good will arrive in cinemas in just a few days

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3 w. ago Wicked For Good reviews are in as film lands early Rotten Tomatoes score

With the film set to be released to the public in just a matter of days, film buffs galore have been giving their thoughts on the final part of the smash musical — and it's wild

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3 w. ago Wicked: For Good review: This Wizard of Oz origins story starring Ariana Grande is devoid of magic

Wicked: For Good doesn’t have the courage of its progressive convictions, writes Alistair Harkness

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3 w. ago Film reviews: Wicked: For Good | The Thing With Feathers | Sisu: Road to Revenge

Jon M Chu’s attempt to mine yet more backstory from the rich lore of The Wizard of Oz is utterly devoid of magic, writes Alistair Harkness

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3 w. ago Wicked: For Good review – Cynthia Erivo sweeps the field in explosive second chunk of Oz prequel

Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin storyDirector Jon M Chu pulls off quite a trick with this manageably proportioned second half to the epic musical prequel-myth inspired by The Wizard of Oz – and based, of course, on the hit stage show. It keeps the rainbow-coloured dreaminess and the Broadway show tune zinginess from part one, and we still get those periodic, surreal pronouncements given by the city’s notables to the diverse folk of Oz, those non-player characters crowding the streets. But now the focus narrows to the main players and their explosive romantic crises, essentially through two interlocking love triangles: Glinda the Good, Elphaba the Wicked and the Wizard – and Glinda, Elphaba and Prince Fiyero, the handsome young military officer with whom both witches are not so secretly in love, as well as possibly having feelings for each other.Jeff Goldblum is excellent as the W...

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3 w. ago Wicked: For Good review — Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have changed cinema for the better

If this sequel to Wicked doesn’t get more Oscars, I’ll eat my witch’s hat

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