As it turns out, “Wicked” is not too big to fail. In fact, it may be all the excess baggage that weighs down the second installment, making it impossible for the sequel “Wicked: For Good” to defy ...

The best thing about the 2024 movie “Wicked” was that it ended. After some two and a half hours of dubious “Wizard of Oz” revisionism, stolidly antifascist politics, and digitally shellacked ...

Brendan Fraser, one-time Encino Man and former George of the Jungle, is our new king of tear-jerking cinema. After seven years of living in Tokyo, sad-sack American expat Phillip Vandarpleog (Fraser) ...

The magical movie sequel "Wicked: For Good" arrives in theaters Friday, Nov. 21. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande reprise their roles as "wicked" witch Elphaba and her popular bestie Glinda. Elphaba ...

“You’re the last of the old movie stars,” someone tells Jay Kelly, and because Jay Kelly — main character of a movie called, not surprisingly, “Jay Kelly” — is played by George Clooney, the line ...

The songs may not be as catchy this time around, but “Wicked: For Good” really sings where it counts: with the emotional ache of the fractured friendship at the story’s core. All the technical marvel ...

It starts with hands, and bodies, and music. We’re somewhere in the middle of nowhere — more specifically, deep within the heart of the Moroccan desert. Men are stacking massive speakers on top of ...

In their fan-oriented and self-mocking holiday comedy, the millennial boy band delivers pure festive sugar rush. By Chris Azzopardi When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

A woman in peril, a cabin in the woods, a malevolent force lurking in the shadows — these are the double helices of modern horror, the most recognizable building blocks of a subgenre that relies on ...

Edgar Wright’s remake of “The Running Man,” based on the Stephen King novel about a game show where citizens are hunted by assassins on live TV, hits the ground running and rarely stops. The ...

Why walk when you can run? The second Stephen King adaptation about a contest to the death for a large cash prize has hit theaters this fall — Edgar Wright’s take on “The Running Man,” which was ...

Rossif Sutherland also stars in the story of a couple who travels to a cabin in the woods, where the woman is beset by surreal visions and disturbing occurrences. By Angie Han Television Critic Here’s ...