![]() ![]() ![]() Holding it all together is Riggan’s friend and manager (the superb Zach Galifianakis). Starring in the Carver production are Mike (Edward Norton), Lesley (Naomi Watts) and Riggan himself, and the endless disasters leading up to the production’s opening make the shenanigans of Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway (from which Birdman borrows a hilarious gag) look like children’s theatre. ![]() In doing so, he also longs to prove to his ex-wife (Amy Ryan), his lover (Andrea Riseborough) and his daughter (Emma Stone) that he is still relevant. In an attempt to recapture his artistic integrity, he brings to the Broadway stage an ambitious adaptation of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. ![]() Michael Keaton, as Riggan, is an aging has-been of an actor, clinging to a belief that he’s still important years after his iconic Birdman movie character was put out to pasture. Designed to aesthetically challenge, frustrate, inspire, amuse and amaze, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new movie – and I do mean new – is the best I’ve seen so far this year. We all need cinematic heroes, and Birdman, both character and film, fits the role with aplomb. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), 2014, 4 ¾ stars Birdman soars Michael Keaton reaches great heights in comeback filmįrom The Orlando Weekly, Novemand The San Antonio Current, October 29, 2014 ![]()
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