All the things in one brilliant story

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2017)

It's Hollywood satire. It's tragicomedy. It's art turned inside out. It's character study. It's a giant inside joke. It's a reflection on meaning, parenthood, popularity, love, relationship and truth. But - most amazingly - it is exceptionally good at being all those things. Birdman is different than anything Inarritu has done before, and in a good way. Brilliantly conceived, brilliantly shot, brilliantly scored, brilliantly acted...just plain brilliant.