What Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu was able to achieve in this film is still astounding to me.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2024

...a film that is just as much about the film industry itself, as it is about the pursuit of happiness, and our ridiculously desperate need to be admired, recognized, and respected by people that shouldn’t really matter to us.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2024

If the theater frame story in Birdman plays a self-reflexive role, this is nothing but a manifestation of Hollywood's need to return back to its narrative roots.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2024

When Keaton's perfection is combined with the film's bracing, topical, and strong social commentary on Hollywood, Broadway, acting, fame, and celebrity for this different modern world, "Birdman" becomes even larger of an achievement.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2024

Michael Keaton is incredible as the washed-up, disillusioned actor hoping a Broadway play will revive his career. The black comedy plays on an irreverent version of Keaton’s own career while being a wholly original satire on celebrity and super heroes.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2023

A creative tour de force for Alejandro González Iñárritu and some comeback for Michael Keaton.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2023

Two hours later, I felt as if my initial disinterest had been validated the hard way...

Full Review | Jan 24, 2023

It’s not quite as miserable and tragedy-driven as his past films and that’s refreshing. But Iñárritu is still a director who can suffocate his story with his style and high concepts.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The film has a reflective—if not precognitive—purpose for Keaton by signifying the actor’s artistic breakthrough in Birdman after years out of the spotlight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2022

While the film's technical prowess gives the audience much to digest from scene to scene, Birdman largely succeeds on the strength of its cast.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2021

Serious as a poodle in a miniskirt sipping on an apple martini

Full Review | Jul 2, 2021

What could have been a stunt turns into a visual rollercoaster that propels the action forward constantly while creating a unique and stylish palette for the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Here not a single performance falters.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 4, 2020

The entire film was shot to resemble a single long take and its cast included Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, and Emma Stone. Need we say more?

Full Review | Oct 28, 2020

In general, Birdman is entertaining (Keaton and Norton are both excellent), although somewhat overheated

Full Review | Aug 13, 2020

Birdman: or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a highly imaginative film that delivers on a compelling story and brilliantly executed technique with the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2020

A big, bold movie, the kind that takes aesthetic and thematic risks, and that grabs you from frame one and practically screams at you to pay attention. It's also very convinced of its own cleverness.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2020

That analogy of the ups and downs of fame that shakes actors in the entertainment culture, is what keeps it flying at the heights of the best movies of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 26, 2020

...this is one film that deserves the descriptor of tour de force.

Full Review | Mar 11, 2020

A sprawling, thrilling film that, for better and worse, is one of the most fully realized personal visions to hit screens in years.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2020