... and still no one asks the right question

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2015)

Birdman at the same level as Citizen Kane? Hmmm Birdman is done by a modern day Robert Altman and it is a modern day Robert Altman film Altman was an experimental film maker. Sometimes in the same film some of the experiments worked. And sometimes they did not.
As with Altman's films, some people really like Birdman. And some do not.
So the real issue -- how did it win Best Picture????????????????? What the whole world keeps forgetting is that the Oscars were created as an "inside joke" where Hollywood could promote itself and congratulate itself and the rest of the world would watch because of the stars.
Boy do we love those stars.
More recently Hollywood has spawned a new tradition of awarding films which are teeter-tottering at the box office, knowing the Oscar will drive them into profit.
It is all about the money. Follow the money.