"A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing"

Rating: 9/10 (16 March 2015)

This is a psychological drama about a Hollywood actor attempting a comeback on Broadway. However, this sentence doesn't begin to describe the complexity of what is going on in this film.
"The Birdman" is an intelligent, well-written, brilliantly filmed and superbly acted movie. I thought it was spell-binding. I think it's worth about 8.5 but I'm going to give it a 9 for now.
It's amusing how this film gets rather high scores, but yet the most upvoted reviews are the negative ones. There is a serious disconnect between review voting and movie voting on IMDb. From where I'm standing, it looks like the small minority of people who didn't like this movie came to the IMDb review section to express their disapproval en masse.