Bird, Clint Eastwood’s ambitious treatment of the life of Jazz improvisationalist Charlie “Bird” Parker, uses a fragmented time structure in a seeming attempt to replicate the construction of its subject’s music. Eastwood edits the film not in any...read the complete Bird (1988) review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Bird is far from perfect and it seems to drag at times. While the portrayal of the man himself is engaging, the film gets bogged down in domestic stickiness and drug melodrama, and, ultimately, Bird suffers for it. While Bird should be of interest to...read the complete Bird (1988) review at DVD Talk (Gil Jawetz)