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MrDoog

Very funny, great cast, worth watching.

Just one thing that struck me. Buscemi looks absolutely nothing like Khruschev and would have been perfect to play Beria, it would also have given him more to work with. Meanwhile Simon Beale, whose performance was admittedly very good would have made a perfect Khruschev. One was heavy set, the other more slight in stature, yet the actors portraying them are the opposite, not sure if it was intentional or not, I thought it was strange.

6 years 1 month ago

frankqb

There are some very funny moments, but the movie drags and is overall just okay. It's strange, unique and at times wonderful, but mostly it's dry, skin-deep and elusive in its charm.

3 stars

6 years ago

CSSCHNEIDER

For me, this was bust a gut funny. Loved it, loved it.

6 years 2 months ago

gobberpooper

Had us crying laughing, it's extremely well written as you'd expect from the guy who brought us Veep.

Be warned though, the movie does overtly hint at one of the main characters being a brutal rapist as he was in real life. None of it is shown but it gets dark at times.

5 years 6 months ago

Siskoid

When compared to Armando Iannucci's other political comedies (The Thick of It/In the Loop/Veep), The Death of Stalin is rather violent, but then it's based on a historical regime that wasn't exactly known for its niceties. And it's also more slapstick than I would have expected. What it has in common with Iannucci's other work is that it captures the systemic ineptitude of bureaucracies, deflates the myth of the "great leader", and especially in the context of a fascist state like Stalin's USSR and what sprang out of it in the wake of his death, offers real theater of the absurd. Well, it would have seemed more absurd maybe - cough cough - four or five years ago. I'm all for dark comedy, but either it hit too close to home in terms of the rise of fascism it KNOWS it's referencing, or the tonal shifts are tough to juggle, but I had a hard time finding it particularly amusing. Where was Malcolm Tucker to sort all of this our?

3 years 3 months ago