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- This is a frequently amazing, head-spinning, tragic farce that somehow manages to balance violent, stressful paranoia with absurd comedy. The laughs never come cheaply; the film stays firmly planted in that terrifying era in which the wrong word in the wrong ear could lead to an entire family's disappearance.
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Mar 9, 2018 · The movie, written by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows, hews pretty closely at first to the graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin on which it is based. The movie begins with a disaster.
Mar 9, 2018 · 95% Tomatometer 256 Reviews 79% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next...
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- Armando Iannucci
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- Steve Buscemi
Mar 8, 2018 · Armando Iannucci’s movie is a very funny comedy about life, death and totalitarianism, and it features a superb Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev.
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Sep 8, 2017 · Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Death of Stalin,' with Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, observes the jockeying for power after the Soviet Union's longtime leader dies.
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Sep 14, 2017 · The Death of Stalin, set in the Soviet Union in 1953, is endlessly funny, but more absurdist than those earlier works. The story spins off from real events.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2022. Politicians bumbling attempts to feign grief about Stalin's death while secretly delighted, functions as a running gag with a Python-ian...
Mar 9, 2018 · The Death of Stalin: Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
