{"id":2165520,"date":"2025-11-19T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2165520"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:47:14","slug":"wicked-for-good-what-the-critics-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wicked-for-good-what-the-critics-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 \u2014 What the Critics Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elphaba and Glinda<\/a>\u2019s lives are about to be changed for good.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, reviews were released for part two of the screen adaptation of the classic Broadway show, Wicked<\/a>, which flies into theaters Friday. The musical\u2019s story centers on an unexpected friendship between Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo<\/a>) and Glinda (Ariana Grande<\/a>). While much of the first film, released in November 2024, takes place at Shiz University, Wicked<\/a> ends similarly to the Broadway musical\u2019s act one, as viewers see Elphaba and Glinda go in different directions during the closing tune, \u201cDefying Gravity<\/a>.\u201d The film was a massive hit with audiences, grossing more than $758 million at the global box office, and with critics, earning two Academy Awards for best costume design and production design.<\/p>\n

The second film has also gotten off to a strong start, with overall positive reviews. It also earned a solid 74 percent on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, and some even…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elphaba and Glinda\u2019s lives are about to be changed for good. On Tuesday, reviews were released for part two of the screen adaptation of the classic Broadway show, Wicked, which flies into theaters Friday. The musical\u2019s story centers on an unexpected friendship between Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande). While much of the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2165520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Wicked-For-Good-\u2014-What-the-Critics-Are-Saying.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165522,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165520\/revisions\/2165522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}