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Wicked: For Good ★★★½

(PG) 137 minutes

We left Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba at the end of Wicked part one shortly after she had unmasked Jeff Goldblum’s Wizard of Oz as a dictatorial fraud. In retaliation, she was branded a wicked witch and forced to flee to Oz’s western reaches, while her friend Glinda (Ariana Grande) stayed on, having failed to persuade Elphaba to make peace with the old tyrant.

When we catch up with them again, Elphaba is still plotting his downfall. From her forest hideout, she is zooming around on her enchanted broomstick, making lightning raids on a variety of targets.

Ariana Grande as Oz’s official cheerer-upper Glinda in Wicked: For Good. Credit: AP

Glinda, on the other hand, has just taken delivery of a new form of personal transport – a magic bubble i

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