It’s been more than a couple of weeks since I’ve seen Birdman. I wanted to let it sit and see how that ending …sits with me. The good news is that the film is very good. It’s such a refreshing entry in Iñárritu’s filmography. I just could not care less for anything after the great Amores Perros. This one is fresh on many levels. It is fun, it has an effective style that puts us right “there” it seems . You get to be a proverbial fly-on-the-wall during the days leading up to a Broadway opening of a play. That play is the last effort of a once famous super hero movie star played brilliantly by Michael Keaton who is trying to do something meaningful. The actors are all great here especially Edward Norton who almost steals every scene he is in. Even the sparse soundtrack (basically just drums) works very well. As for the ending, well, I am not crazy about it. It just could’ve ended 5 minutes earlier and the movie would’ve been better for it.