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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…

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

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…

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

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…

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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…

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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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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 15 Oct 2014

A daring, startling piece of work. And not only for what Inarritu manages to show. But for what Keaton is courageous enough to reveal…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Oct 2014

Birdman is a scalpel-sharp dissection of Hollywood, Broadway, and fame in the 21st century…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Oct 2014

It’s undeniably thrilling to watch Gonzalez Iñárritu and Keaton aiming so high…

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

By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 14 Oct 2014

An unrecognizable Michael Keaton seems to have aged 40 years since the last time he appeared on the screen, but he’s still the best (i.e.,…

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

By Joanna Langfield (398) for The Movie Minute (398) on 14 Oct 2014

By grounding his soaring fantasy in a traditional story, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has created his most accessible, magical film yet…

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

By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 14 Oct 2014

Serious and silly, self-aware and ironic, it’s the movie that questions stardom, fame and celebrity, built around a role Michael Keaton had…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 14 Oct 2014

Some fresh takes on midlife crises, celebrities in America, and the wild popularity of the social media…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 13 Oct 2014

Birdman - which Iñárritu wrote with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo - feels as broadly ambitious as Babel, his most…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Oct 2014

Birdman is a marvelously entertaining picture, a work of look at me! bravado that's energized every minute…

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