"You can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2002)

Stanley Kubrick has made several films that can truly be called great (The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey), several others that are very good (Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, Paths of Glory) and in a career that spanned from 1951 to 1999, he never made a bad film. However, in those forty-eight years, he made only one perfect movie:
Dr. Strangelove.
(Of course, there are some that would say that 2001 is also perfect, but fuck them - they don't know what they are talking about.)
Dr. Strangelove is, without a doubt, Kubrick's masterwork. It is a smart, wicked satire that uses black and white photography to its very utmost, features three great performances from Peter Sellers (as The President, Mandrake, and the title character, Strangelove), and features some of the most memorable lines in movie history.
This is, very simply, required viewing for any man (or woman) who considers him/herself a fan of great film.
10/10 *****/*****