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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 16 Oct 2014

So few movies attempt to do anything really fresh that the arrival of a picture that attempts to do several such things triggers a reflexive…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 16 Oct 2014

Excellent, mature dramedy about failure, success, identity…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 16 Oct 2014

Doing a whole movie this way isn't unprecedented, of course. Hitchcock's Rope did it without digital trickery more than half a century ago…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Oct 2014

Birdman is a complete blast from start to finish…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 15 Oct 2014

It's a dizzying film, a swirl of sadness and humor and frantic thought. It's also deceptively simple…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 15 Oct 2014

It’s perhaps the most incisive and funniest Hollywood take on Broadway since Mel Brook’s original “The Producers.”…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Bill Gibron (1,013) for Film Racket (579) on 15 Oct 2014

One of the best movies of the year, and one of the most telling performances ever put on film…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 15 Oct 2014

Full of strange references, self-reflexive jokes and a cast of actors playing actors, it's a maze of mirrors that shifts under your feet like…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 15 Oct 2014

One of the year's most audacious, savagely funny and unpredictable films, it features an outstanding performance by Michael Keaton as the has-been…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 15 Oct 2014

This pitch-dark comedy, which was directed, con brio, by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, sizzles as the camera circles, stalks and swoops…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Oct 2014

For Michael Keaton, Birdman is some kind of gift from the movie gods, a license to have his cake and messily devour it too…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 15 Oct 2014

Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors’ and the camera’s movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 15 Oct 2014

This is no tale told by an idiot — on the contrary, it’s a funny, fast-moving parable about fame and ambition, laid out for us with care…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 15 Oct 2014

I'm jazzed by every tasty, daring, devastating, howlingly funny, how'd-they-do-that minute in Birdman…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 15 Oct 2014

With its improvisatory score (drummer Antonio Sanchez provides a hustling backbeat throughout), its seamless shots, its leaps into the surreal,…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 Oct 2014

A movie with ambitions as high-flying as its superhero but a success rate decidedly lower to the ground…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 15 Oct 2014

This tale of insecurity and reinvention in the backstage world of Broadway wring laughs from cringeworthy moments of frantic desperation…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 15 Oct 2014

The camerawork in Birdman is an astonishment, and an argument that everything flows together, which in this movie means the cinematography,…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Oct 2014

The director's surrealist portrait of modern times and the cult of celebrity is brilliant on so many levels that even the occasional downdraft…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 15 Oct 2014

Birdman is the very definition of a tour de force, and Iñárritu’s overheated technique meshes perfectly with the (enjoyable) overacting—the…

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