Oscar Watcher: Take a Flyer on Likely Academy Favorite 'Birdman'

LOS ANGELES — Our Oscar Watcher series continues this week with Birdman — and yes, we've been throwing around the words "must see" a lot here, but trust

You must see this for two reasons: 1. It's going to get a bunch of major nominations, and 2. It's unlike any movie you've ever seen, and hearing your friends try to explain it is going to be headache-inducing.

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Not everyone loves Birdman — dissenting voices started popping up after the film burned up the fall festival circuit — but everyone agrees that director Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 119 minutes of insanity is one of the most original films to come out in years, utterly disrupting the format of narrative filmmaking and destroying any expectations you may have had going in. Read more...

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