10 Most Rewatchable Movies Of 2014

2. Birdman (Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance)

When Birdman finally comes to end, you're left with feelings of shock, awe, confusion and - above all - a real desire to go back and watch it all over again. It's not just Emmanuel Lubezki's phenomenal (and seemingly seamless) cinematography that beckons one back to Birdman, but the entire structure of the movie - definitely "Godardian" in its make-up - as rendered by the very talented director Alejandro González Iñárritu. It's a strange, almost hallucinogenic ride of a picture - not quite "real," but real enough to steer clear of any claims of pure fantasy, either. Michael Keaton delivers what is arguably his best ever performance as the titular hero, whose attempts to rebrand himself on Broadway are chronicled across the span of the movie - in one take. Or, at least, Birdman was designed to appear as though it was shot in one take. Trying to spot when the movie "cuts" during a second viewing is one reason to revisit Birdman, but the picture is also puzzling enough to lure curious cinephiles back to try and work out what really happened in those brilliant 119 minutes.