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Was wickedness thrust upon Jon M. Chu’s movie adaptation of Wicked by the critics? After months of an aggressively pink and green press tour filled with emotional interviews and inescapable movie theater etiquette pre-show ads by AMC, Wicked has broken out of Oz and landed back on Earth when it premiered in Sydney on November 3. As cinemas prepare to quiet down hoards of theater kids belting out “Defying Gravity,” film critics are analyzing Chu’s take on the musical phenomenon, and many were as enchanted by the land of Oz as theater fans are, even if the movie can be overstimulating at times. But even the few nay-sayers, who felt the film’s “sense of self-importance” wasn’t believable or that something was…
