"On a pure storytelling level Wicked Part 1 is right up there as one of the most radical big studio Hollywood movies ever made," he wrote.

The "Don't Look Up" director called the musical "one of the most radical big studio Hollywood movies ever made."

On a pure storytelling level ‘Wicked Part 1’ is right up there as one of the most radical big studio Hollywood movies ever made,” McKay wrote on X. “I know ‘Part 2’ swings back to the center a bit but ‘Part 1 ‘ is nakedly about radicalization in the face of careerism,