[Rummyfan]

I really enjoyed it. I’ve watched it three times probably. The jokes- while decidedly of the black humor variety - come so fast and furious you miss half of them in a single viewing. At least Beria gets it in the end.

[Rummyfan]

Hmm. What does Comrade Stalin mean by this? Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Krushchev (Steve Buscemi) and Beria (Simon Russell Beale) wonder whether to call a doctor, if any are still unpurged...

[Boiler Plate]

Very Funny movie. Mostly because it is probably true.

[PAR35]

Probably the only movie I’ve seen at a first run picture show in 10 or 15 years.

Great comedy.

[Rummyfan]

After Stalin, the Soviet Union ossified under a series of non-entities ever more enervated and waxen - Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko... And yet it nonetheless endured for four decades. That is the power of the apparat, of a vast machine of mediocrity, of third-rate bureaucrats leaning on fourth-rate clerks to torment fifth-rate minions.

Thank God the Soviet Union is gone. Russia is still a mess... maybe it always will be. But the Evil Empire is gone.

[o-n-money]

A movie that is hysterical and scary. 4 stars.

[Maceman]

I found it very entertaining.

[Stosh]

Just a wonderful movie - it’s hard enough to believe somebody would make a movie that mocks the Commies, but then if they’d told me it would star the likes of Steve Buscemi and Michael Palin, I’d be even more skeptical. But there it is, and it’s funny as all get out - in a black humor fashion, as others have pointed out.

The devil will not be made fun of, which makes this treatment of the old Soviet Union all that more satisfying. And the dialog, along with the subtle little sight gags here and there, is really first rate. It’s worth watching just for it’s portrayal of Marshall Zhukov, especially as it establishes the contrast between a character with real masculinity compared to all the butt-kissers and slimeballs in the central committee

[Publius]

The funniest English comedy since “A Fish Named Wanda” 30 years ago.

[minnesota_bound]

Stalin tactics are not dead, they are known under many other names.

[Nateman]

I simply checked it out from a library. Great movie. Stalin laughs at the note accusing him of being evil and hoping that God kills him. That is when is gets the stroke. Lots of purges and innocent peons getting killed in the movie. Putin banned it in Russia so you know it had to be good.

[safeasthebanks]

Excellent movie and well acted. Especially the guy that played Beria. What a monster he was.

[Bonemaker]

Ha ha, I wonder when they will make “Stalin...the Musical”. Ha ha.

[sphinx]

Excellent movie. Like several others, I found it accidentally and have wondered how & why the release of such a good film received so little attention. Did the big distributors not want it? Perhaps they thought it was too “intellectual” for the modern movie audience, half of whom don’t know who Stalin was, with the democrat half of the remainder thinking Stalin was the good guy.

[Fiji Hill]

Opposing viewpoints:

• Stalin, Friend and Comrade--Ernst Busch (1951)

• Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)

[nd76]

I studied Soviet and Eastern European governments when I was attending at the time an anti-Communist university (my, things have changed in 40 years).

I thought “The Death of Stalin” was great and highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about how cult of personality totalitarian systems, such as communism, really work. While it wasn’t entirely historically accurate (Beria met his end about nine months after Stalin’s death, not immediately after the funeral as depicted in the movie), it was close enough.

BTW, the body count in this movie is far greater than any Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson movie.

[Skooz]

Outstanding film. Funny and smart.

[sima_yi]

"The Death of Stalin" is being very funny movie. I am giving it four stars and one half.