Brilliant. Absolutely Fucking Brilliant.

Gosh Dammit, Michael Keaton.

The entire cast wow...

THE CAMERAWORK, THE EFFING CAMERAWORK!!!

This is just too great to put into words.

Can't quite back Scott Tobias' scorching takedown of this film, but I broadly agree with him that it's self-righteous without being convincing, and self-important without being substantial. The long shots wandering through the corridors of a Broadway theater to find characters shrieking at each other just felt endlessly redundant to me, like being on an exhausting treadmill and never getting anywhere. The fact that it doesn't end at the natural endpoint, but goes on and on and on after that, just adds to the impression that it's all sound and self-important fury, flashy enough to be impressive, full of technical virtuosity, and with some really striking images, but not really saying anything except Art Is Important, and People Interpret Art Differently. I'm aware that a lot of people love this film. I guess I also am embracing its message of People Interpret Art Differently, because I interpreted this as a pretty intellectually empty exercise in self-congratulation.

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it’s not that bad but it’s also not very good and the surrealist elements don’t quite land for me

SO i rewatched this one today and shiiet i did not remember it being this good. When I watched this the last time I saw it right after I saw whiplash (like right after I ran from one theater to another) and I think I was so overwhelmed I couldn't take this one in. however back to the actual movie, it is SO GOOD. The acting, the story, the frikkin camerawork, the music... However the thing about this movie is maybe that it's a little bit too good to be true. The emotional impact doesn't really make it's way though to me as I wish it would, this is why i didn't want to give it 4,5 stars even though out of a objective point of view it is.

if you have to SCREAM Hey! This Is Art! then you’re doing something wrong holy fuck

This movie is still really fun despite how genuinely pretentious it is.

3.75

Iñárritu is irredeemable. Even filmmakers I loathe (Haneke, von Trier, Nolan) attempt things that are somewhat novel; Iñárritu, however, seems content in manipulating audiences through try-hard gimmick-auteurism: look - a long take! look - natural lighting! look - virtual reality! Mark my words: his next feature-length flick (I refuse to call it a movie or film) will also be some gimmick, so the little babbies with little understanding of cinematic form - gesture? blocking? What are those things? - can comprehend his "genius" (ha!). Boil down "genius" filmmaking to a gimmick (a long take or natural lighting) and any simpleton can comprehend it. After all, why study film theory if all you need to know is that a film is brilliant because it was made to look like one single take?

The worst film I have ever seen.

Cinema at its finest

Incredible movie on every front. Deserved the Oscar win. I can't believe I stayed away from it for so long just because I thought the title was stupid.

There are some great lines in this but also some very shitty ones.

Low key the first time I saw this when it came out I didn’t even realize that it was all in “one” shot. I guess that means it did it’s job. S/o to Chivo.