Now that the Academy Awards have come and gone (and we’ve had the chance to catch up with most of this year’s Best Picture nominated films), the time has finally come to unveil the list of our 10 favorite films released in 2014.
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Review: 2015 Best Picture Nominees
On Sunday, Birdman may have nabbed the Best Picture Oscar. However, as history has proven, not every winner of the show’s top prize truly proved to be as deserving as its competition. In the aftermath of another Oscar season, we decided to take a look at each of the films nominated for Best Picture.
Review: ‘Birdman’
There are few actors more perfect to play the role of an aging actor staging a comeback in one last-ditch effort to shed the image he cultivated years ago as a big-screen superhero than Michael Keaton. Yes, the actor doesn’t quite have the high profile he did back in the 1980s and 1990s, and those of viewers may already have correctly guessed that Birdman makes good use of the fact that Keaton is still perhaps best known for his role as the Caped Crusader in Tim Burton’s Batman
However, whereas the current crop of costumed heroes focus on taking down baddies and saving the human race (or alien worlds, in the case of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy