Best Movie of 2014

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2015)

This movie was excellent. It's easily my favorite movie of 2014 and it deserves every price it gets.
The best thing about it was that the whole film is cheated to look like it was taken in one shot. This was a great choice for several reasons. Because the movie is about actors performing a play and you actually see them doing their performances i got dangerously close to constantly reminding myself that i'm just watching actors playing a role. But the fact that you never see a cut as well as the really great performances prevented me from doing so and i got sucked right into it. The other reason is that some methods used in a theatrical production like quickly changing costumes between scenes are also most likely being used in this movie because you can't really tell where the cuts are placed.
I found it also great that there are not many locations. The majority takes place in a theater and you see a lot what's going on Backstage. Other places are parts of the Broadway and a bar. Aside from that there where some other locations but the characters do not stay there very long. Most of the time we are just in the theater seeing the characters preparing the play and i'm glad that this decision was made.
The movie also had a great sense of humor. The film never tries to rub the jokes in you face but they are very well placed and the overall pacing and directing was very good. It also criticized a lot about modern movie going audiences and modern blockbusters in general.
The only thing that distracted me a little was that some parts are really predictable but aside from that nothing bothered me at all and i'm still going to give this movie a perfect rating.