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‘Wicked’ Soars, Roars, and Casts a Heady Spell

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Summary
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64% Informative

There is some tricky calculus to be done when bringing a hit stage musical to the screen.

Director Jon M. Chu learned that lesson the hard way with In the Heights, a well-reviewed movie based on a hit Broadway show that failed to make sparks at the box office.

Most important to the film’s prospects is that Wicked is, well, good.

While some wide-shot cutaways to Elphaba on her newly enchanted broom mean we miss a few desired closeups on Erivo wailing away.

It’s a stirring close to a rousing, consistently engrossing 160-minute film.

Wicked succeeds because of some unreproducible, lightning in a bottle convergences.

VR Score

68

Informative language

68

Neutral language

44

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

46

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not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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