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Wicked: For Good closes its story without awards recognition but with clear creative conviction. The film’s reception reflects a mismatch between its intentions and critical expectations. Designed as the second half of a continuous narrative, it prioritizes character depth and long-term emotional payoff over accessibility. In doing so, For Good succeeds less as a crowd-pleaser and more as a film made for those already invested in the world of Wicked.
James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash delivers the franchise’s most emotionally layered story yet, deepening its characters and political tensions even as its climactic spectacle starts to repeat itself.
Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus imagines a beautifully ordered world where loneliness, failure, and disagreement have been engineered away—and asks what that costs art, love, and autonomy. Starring Rhea Seehorn, it turns an alien apocalypse into a meditation on AI and authorship.
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