Nikita Khrushchev: This is how people get killed, when your stories don't fit.
The Death of Stalin is the darkest, most absurd, hilarious, film I have seen this year that I didn't laugh out loud at. Sure, the entire morbid theater of the communist ethos is almost debilitating funny, but none once did any of it break through in an uncontrolled physical outburst from me. This is a British farce soup set on high simmer that never boils.
As to the cast: I will basically watch anything with Michael Palin, Jason Isaacs, and Steve Buscemi... so hats to those that signed off on pros. Yet, -and I say this with knowledge of his current troubles, and having never really watched Arrested Development- Jeffery Tambor was a disappointment in the role of Gregory Malenkov. There was something about his deadpan and somber voice that did not carry over into the spirit of the character.
3.1 out of 5
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