'Wicked: For Good'

Directed by John M. Chu (PG)

★★★

John M. Chu’s highly anticipated second installment of Wicked “delivers what we might call the ‘whew factor,’ as in: Thank goodness, he didn’t blow it,” said in Variety . But the film also does more. After last year’s Part 1 "succeeded in wowing audiences," racking up $750 million worldwide, it would have been enough to follow up with a merely solid rendition of Act 2 of the stage musical based on Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz-set novels. Instead, this movie addresses a common complaint about the show's back half, giving green-skinned Elphaba and her former roommate Glinda more scenes together and adding enough story content that Act 2 "now feels like a robust tale unto itself."

To me, this chapter of the tale still makes

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