Movie Review -- 'Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)' -- A Dark Comedic Hit
Posted by Robert Grafsgaard on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
By Robert Grafsgaard / October 24, 2014
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Set almost entirely inside and within the surrounding city block of a New York Broadway theater, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman is every bit a story about place as it is about its satirically overblown characters. Starring such notables as Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, and Emma Stone, Iñárritu’s film is also an often darkly witty caricature of backstage theater life behind the curtains.
In a desperate attempt to revitalize his artistic relevance as an actor decades after his popular portrayal of comic book hero Birdman, wholly irrelevant...!--more-->