I did not expect Wicked to wreck me the way it did.

I did not expect Wicked to wreck me the way it did.

Jon M. Chu took the most beloved Broadway musical in a generation and somehow made it feel like it was always meant to be a film. Every frame is a painting. Every shot is a statement.

Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba is not a performance. It is a channeling. When she opened her mouth for Defying Gravity, the entire cinema went silent in a way that happens maybe twice in a decade.

Ariana Grande made everyone who doubted her eat their words slowly. Glinda could have been a caricature. She made her a complete person - vain and kind and terrified and brave all at once.

The friendship between them is the whole film. Two women who should have been enemies choosing each other in a world that wrote the ending before they arrived.

Part one ends exactly where it should and I am not ready for Part Two.

Rating: 9/10. Bring tissues. Bring more tissues.

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