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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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  2. Mar 9, 2018 · Reviews. The Death of Stalin. 106 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2018. Glenn Kenny. March 9, 2018. 4 min read. The writer/director Armando Iannucci has never let good taste get in the way of a good and bitter laugh.

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  3. When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy ...

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    • Armando Iannucci
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    • Steve Buscemi
  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Politicians bumbling attempts to feign grief about Stalin's death while secretly delighted, functions as a running gag with a Python-ian flavor (heightened by Python emeritus Michael Palin in...

  8. The film is funny and shocking by turns but this is still an outsider’s vision. Iannucci portrays the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1953 much as if it is a...

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