Film review: The Death Of Stalin

I'll keep this review brief because if you have good taste in comedy you will have seen The Death Of Stalin already.

The Death of Stalin, review

Weighing in at a relatively sprightly 106 minutes, The Death of Stalin is a clever and accomplished movie, well worth investigating. This is Iannucci playing to his strengths as a political satirist and mostly coming up with the goods. Interesting though, that despite a script peppered with crackling dialogue, the film's funniest scene is an entirely visual one. Go figure.

The Death of Stalin is easily the comedy of the year

This delightfully silly movie is an intelligent, hilarious circus crammed full of the finest people cinema has to offer.

The Death of Stalin review

This delicious new dark comedy comes courtesy of renowned political satirist Armando Iannucci (The Thick Of It, Veep).

The Death of Stalin - an audacious comedy of horrors

Armando Iannucci's Soviet-era satire is full of grand absurdity and violent dread.

The Death of Stalin: amusing, though not clever satire

Stalin dies, giving rise to a lot of averted eyes, thinking on one's feet and winging it in the Kremlin, in Armando Iannucci's passable screwball comedy which might aspire to satire but actually isn't so.

Funny Cow review - Maxine Peake blazes

Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s comedy circuit.

'Funny Cow': London review

Maxine Peake is defiantly good as a Northern comic working the sexist circuit of the 1970s and 80s.

Funny Cow review

Adrian Shergold's edgy comedy Funny Cow exudes a certain vintage Britishness. Taking place in the 70s and 80s, atmospherically there is a tinge of EastEnders and classics like Alfie.

Hard to resist this sweet-natured romcom from Richard Ayoade, AKA Maurice Moss of The IT Crowd. It's the story of 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), who is determined to lose his virginity before he hits 16 (preferably with Yasmin Paige's Jordana) and to protect his mother (Sally Hawkins) from the seductive powers of old mullet-headed flame Graham (Paddy Considine). There's real warmth and comedy in these characters.