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Birdman

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis ...

7.0

75,633

Comedy. Drama A washed up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he prepares to mount a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim past glory. Movie star Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), who became famous for playing iconic superhero Birdman in three successful installments but turned down a fourth one, has decided to stage a comeback by writing, directing and starring in a Broadway play. Pressures mount leading ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Michael Keaton returns with the comeback of the century (...) Alejandro G. Inarritu’s best feature (...) a triumph on every creative level"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"This is the role of Keaton’s career. (...) It lands with a force Iñárritu hasn’t harnessed since Amores Perros, his 2000 debut (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Birdman flies very, very high (...) One of the most sustained examples of visually fluid tour de force cinema anyone's ever seen, all in the service of a story that examines the changing nature of celebrity"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A funny, frenetic, buoyant and rambunctiously showboating entertainment in which Mr. Iñárritu himself rises high and then higher still"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"I'm jazzed by every tasty, daring, devastating, howlingly funny (...) minute in 'Birdman'. (...) 'Birdman' is a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"'Birdman' proves that a movie(...) can soar on the wings of its own technical prowess, even as the banality of its ideas threatens to drag it back down to earth. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"The director's surrealist portrait of modern times and the cult of celebrity is brilliant on so many levels that even the occasional downdraft can't keep 'Birdman' from soaring"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"One of the year's most audacious, savagely funny and unpredictable films, it features an outstanding performance by Michael Keaton. Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	“Birdman” is of sound and fury (...) the entire cast is outstanding, delivering a brilliantly-written script (...) with "Birdman," Iñárritu, Keaton, and our own faith in the limitless possibilities of cinema, are reborn."	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"Savagely funny, strangely sweet, sad and utterly brilliant New York-set comedy (...) As soon as it ends, you'll be dying to fly with it again (...) Score: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Adams Screendaily	"A magnificent and enthralling film (...) 'Birdman' is a technical tour de force, a beautifully performed and smartly scripted black comedy that will leave its audience keen to head back for more (...)	POS

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