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Is Wicked Popular with Critics?
Did the movie musical impress the right cohorts?
After months of an aggressively pink and green press tour filled with emotional interviews and inescapable movie theater etiquette pre-show ads by AMC, Wicked has broken out of Oz and landed back on Earth when it premiered in Sydney on November 3. The decision to record the songs live on set whenever possible is a major plus… While suspension of disbelief can be hard to achieve in contemporary movie musicals, Grande and, especially, Erivo (who does her best screen work to date, making Elphaba the bruised, beating heart of the film with a performance of breathtaking raw vulnerability and emotional shading) draw us into the story and the characters’ experiences to a degree that lets us forget the genre’s inherent artificiality.” — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter Chu has made a movie musical — the best since Chicago, even if it ends with its own “intermission” — that manages to stand on its own as a fully satisfying screen entertainment and also serves as a delicious invitation to an upcoming second half that I quite frankly can’t wait to see.” — Pete Hammond, Deadline
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