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Daniel Goodwin reviews Armando Iannucci's farcical satire The Death of Stalin, which is playing at the Toronto International Film Festival 2017.
‘The Death of Stalin’: Film Review | TIFF 2017 Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Death of Stalin,' with Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev, observes the jockeying for power after the Soviet Union ...
Film Review: ‘The Death of Stalin’ Mixing verbal fireworks with low-brow gags, Armando Iannucci finds unlikely comedy amid the confusion following the Soviet leader's demise.
Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Death of Stalin has picked up three BIFA awards as part of the event’s craft section.
The Death of Stalin, a black comedy from the creator of Veep, turns politics into purgatory Authoritarians and their sycophants get the Iannucci treatment, and it’s deadly serious.
"The Death of Stalin" (2017), Armando Iannucci’s second feature film, portrays the struggle for power following Stalin’s death over control of the USSR between Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), ...
“The Death of Stalin” marks the first instance in which Iannucci has applied his style to real-life figures, and it’s as though he has crafted a historical foundation for the rest of his work.
“Veep” creator Armando Iannucci has spent enough time sending up America’s politics, he told the Toronto International Film Festival audience at the premiere of his new satire. The new ...
“The Death of Stalin” is the master satirist working more quietly and deliberately than usual, with a buffer of 65 years between his characters and their audience.
Film Review: ‘The Death of Stalin’ Mixing verbal fireworks with low-brow gags, Armando Iannucci finds unlikely comedy amid the confusion following the Soviet leader's demise.