Searchlight The 2010s were a notoriously uneven decade for Best Picture winners — consider that the trainwreck that is Green Book and the masterpiece that is Parasite won the award back-to-back. Half of the winners were incredibly inspired — 12 Years a Slave, Spotlight, Moonlight, and The Shape of Water — while the other half ranged from the forgettable (Argo, The Artist) to the outright mediocre (The King’s Speech). And then there’s Birdman. From the singular, highly idiosyncratic, and often questionable mind of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue…
