Loved it!

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2015)

Birdman is an ambitious technical showcase powered by a layered story and outstanding performances from Michael Keaton and Edward Norton.We've seen the long-take trick before, perhaps most notably in Hitchcock's 1948 chamber thriller Rope, which masked five of its 10 cuts by slinking in close to its cast. But in Birdman, the effect's entirely different. Working with the great cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Iñárritu turns the film into a high-wire act – live, unpredictable, light as air, yet also fatalistically locked on course. While it's going on, you're glued to the impossibility of what you're seeing. Once it's over, you can't believe what you saw.