Wicked is a dazzling reminder of how good movie musicals can be

Jon M. Chu’s Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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It’s become strangely common for studios to downplay the fact that their musicals are movies filled with people singing and dancing. But there was really no way for Universal to hide how much of a theater geek’s fever dream its long-gestating Wicked adaptation was going to be. Like the show and the novel it is based on,

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