Wicked: For Good is Ariana Grande’s movie. And the film knows it, bending toward her every chance it gets. If the first Wicked centered Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the shy outcast whose discovery of her magical powers and the sinister machinery behind the land of Oz led to her being branded the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked: For Good focuses intently on her opposite number and best friend, Glinda (Grande), now positioned by the powers that be as the good (but secretly powerless) witch who can keep the people happy and placated as their world slides into paranoid dictatorship. Many of those who saw Wicked onstage were understandably curious about how splitting the story into two movies would function. The second half of the stage musical in no way feels like it would lend itself to

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