Review of The Death of Stalin (2017) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 08 Mar 2018
Armando Iannucci’s absurdist comedy reveals this in an extremely loose manner of speaking, with malice aforethought, straight-faced glee and formidable sharpshooting that occasionally misfires. It isn’t history but free-range fiction, a venomous farce containing nuggets of fact, and if its subjects bear any resemblance to present-day dictators and authoritarian mugs or thugs around the world, then the movie has hit its archetypal target.
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This review of The Death of Stalin (2017) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 08 Mar 2018.
The Death of Stalin has generally received very positive reviews.
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