Birdman of Alcatraz

  • 1962


MOVIE IS incredible compelling memorable aesthetic implausible
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Average Rating 3.1/5
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4.5
Birdman of Alcatraz avoids the norm and has been fashioned with subtlety and care for characterization that is memorable and refreshing. The New York Times
2.8
Prison biopic thats more interested in its liberal message about prison reform working for redemption than in anything else..Reviewed by Dennis Schwar .. Sover
2.0
Frankenheimers compelling, if slightly fictionalized biopic of Robert Stroud is extremely wel acted by Burt Lancaster and the rest of the cast, includ .. Emanuellevy
1.0
The lifers intransigence is his aesthetic approach, stated early on (You aint got much, but you keep subtractin!) to place the story on a Frostian eve .. Cine Passion
4.0
Birdman of Alcatraz is a quiet, contemplative work by a great director just as hes starting to work at the top of his game. It features some of the er .. FanboyNation.com
3.0
Kudos to Frankenheimer and Guffey for not pushing the birdcage/clinker analogies any further than they do, but the movie itself, for all its diverting .. Nicks Flick Picks
4.5
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: Wildly implausible though some of its razzle dazzle incidents may seem in retrospect, this Hollywood mystery melodrama is al .. Maclean's Magazine
4.5
Director John Frankenheimer allows Lancaster his head and hes incredible in the role. Backseat Mafia
1.5
The drama of his gradually converting his cell into a laboratory for the study of bird diseases is sure fire material and Mr. Frankenheimer does justi .. Esquire Magazine



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