Review – The Death of Stalin

Armando Iannucci brings his farcical fakeumentary style of political satire to bear on the title event. Thus serious-as-a-heart-attack characters such as Khrushchev and Beria find themselves transformed into Altman-esque, bungling bureaucrats. The effect is surprisingly entertaining. There’s just enough absurd, actual history here to make the broad comedy of the fictional parts work. Worth seeing