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Cynthia Erivo's Wicked & Paul Mescal's Gladiator II – "Glicked" is saving 2024 cinema

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Let’s go to the movies and feel joy again! Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and 86-year-old Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II are going head-to-head at the box office and we’re lapping it up. We haven’t had movies this big since 2023’s back-to-back releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer, aka “Barbenheimer”. Will “Glicked” save the movies and snatch the awards season trophies?     Guest critic Maria Lewis – screenwriter, film geek and pop culture etymologist is in the house. Also, something’s not right: John Krasinski aka Jim from The Office is People magazine’s sexiest man alive?