Birdman was great, but more showmanship, less nuanced... There will be many more films like Birdman, maybe not as great as Birdman, but there will be more. What struck us about Birdman is the drumbeats- yes, the screenplay, yes emma stone and keaton, yes the cinematography, but the drumbeats were overpowering!! But there won't be another Boyhood or unlikely (just as there can't be another Cries and Whispers or Psycho or Persona or Apocalypse Now or Pulp Fiction or Meghe Dhaka Tara)- it is one of its kind- it is joyous, it is life, more often than not!! Yes, Birdman is awesome, it rouses you, the drumbeats are ecstatic. But Boyhood lives with you as if Linklater struck into all of us, to get our secrets, our childhoods, our joys, our insecurities. Birdman doesn't do that. Linklater has a special skill. He knows his kind, and the human joys and follies. Innaritu is a superb filmmaker but he is a tad superficial- he is in a hurry to give and take. Linklater is not. He is willing to search, to find, to give- that kind of filmmaking is special. Boyhood is special!!..
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Yeah, Birdman is unique. I loved the soundtrack so much that sometimes I'm writing my posts listening to it because it's inspiring.
I will look into the movies you just mentioned, I watched some of them but that was a long time ago. :)