Given that Wicked: For Good is a direct, planned continuation of last year's hit Broadway musical adaptation Wicked (2024), it carries with it all the same strengths and weaknesses. The cinematic stage on which director Jon M. Chu works his revisionist backstory of The Wizard of Oz is a grandiose merging of massive sets and digital wizardry, and once again the film's scope and scale threaten to, but never quite, consume the drama (the glossy-rich cinematography is by Alice Brooks, who previously worked with Chu on In the Heights and many of his early music videos). The second ... Read More