Birdman (2014) and the Unexpected Allure of the Status Quo
I resisted seeing Birdman, or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance for a while. Like seven years or so. I've long thought that director Alejandro Iñárritu was one of the most overrated people in Hollywood. This piece over at The Dissolve did a nice job of articulating the visceral distaste I felt for his films, ever since 21 Grams: "...everything-is-conne…