Whether he wins the Best Actor Oscar or not, you can absolutely call him the Comeback Kid. He opens himself up and slices in like a surgeon in an awesome, at times unsettling tour de force. Everyone sings and dances and somersaults in this tag-team circus but Keaton is the leader and the daddy. It’s more profoundly a searcher, reacher and a mad leaper of a film with one live-wire, mad-rodent performance after another. Like I said on Twitter last night, it’s an all-but-guaranteed Oscar nominee in several categories - Best Picture, Best Director (Inarritu), Best Actor ( Michael Keaton), Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor ( Edward Norton), Best Supporting Actress ( Emma Stone), Best Cinematography ( Emmanuel Lubezki), Best Editing, etc.īirdman is not just a visual groundbreaker - not actually a single seamless, roving Steadicam shot from start to finish but a wonderful illusion of this. Okay, not everyone but those who were hungry and adventurous and receptive enough to revel in a work of reaching, swirling genius… pig heaven! I was giddy, ecstatic, swooning as I half-stumbled into the night air…so was almost everyone I spoke to about it over the next two or three hours. Inarritu‘s Birdman (Fox Searchlight, 10.17), an audacious, darkly hilarious serving of snap-crackle brilliance and psychological excavation par excellence, blew the roof off the Werner Herzog theatre last night.

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