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.

Daniel Goodwin reviews Armando Iannucci's farcical satire The Death of Stalin, which is playing at the Toronto International Film Festival 2017.

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.

Too soon, says graphic novelist Fabien Nury, whose The Death of Stalin has been turned into an Armando Iannucci-directed movie set for a U.S. release by IFC Films March 9, 2018.

Moscow circa 1953 for “The Death of Stalin,” a delicious black comedy based on a French graphic novel, with easily as much bite as his HBO series (and “In the Loop” and “The Thick of It ...

Depending on your point of view, The Death of Stalin is either a sly, wintry satire on Armando Iannucci’s usual theme of squawking political idiocy, or an insidious attempt to destabilise the ...

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.

“Veep” creator Armando Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” will open the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section, TIFF organizers announced on Thursday.

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.

In fact, The Death of Stalin is filled with British actors, from Rupert Friend to Paul Whitehouse, and a couple of acclaimed Americans too (Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor as Nikita Khrushchev ...