Why critics are calling 'Veep' creator's 'The Death of Stalin' the 'funniest' movie of the year
"Armando Iannucci's hilarious, profane satire about politburos pole-positioning for power could not be more timely. It's the funniest, fiercest comedy of the year."
"As Stanley Kubrick did with 'Dr. Strangelove,' Iannucci has built a satire not by twisting the truth but by nudging reality just a few inches further in the direction it was already going."
Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice
"A riotous farce of doublespeak and plotting laced with moments of bitumen-black horror."
Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
"This is a comedy of terrors that creates laughs but doesn't let you forget that Stalin and his coterie caused the deaths of untold numbers of Soviet citizens."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Its application of [Iannucci's] signature barbed comic voice to such grim history (executions are a constant source of gallows humor) packs its own punch."
A.A. Dowd, The AV Club
"Iannucci has a genius for depicting ridiculous minutiae, the tyrannical relentlessness of red tape, the formality of statecraft versus the chaos of personality."
David Edelstein, Vulture
"Full of pithy one-liners and cringe-inducing power struggles laced with black humor."
Richard Porton, The Daily Beast
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