Coming up next: the "9/11" musical, "Pearl Harbor" ballet and "Hurricane Katrina" sketch show!

Rating: 3/10 (11 March 2018)

I'm actually relieved that there are no more taboos in the cinema, which Lenin considered "the most important art form for us," communists. It's certainly reassuring to see a capitalist pig like Iannucci disproving the point by putting out this well-produced yet utterly worthless garbage.
I can't think of a single reason why an artist would choose the death of Stalin as a backdrop for a supposed comedy. Is it to underline the historicity of the events? Not in this case. To ease the impact of the subject matter onto the audience without spooking them and prematurely turning them away from the film? Sure, if they don't know who Stalin was going in. Is it to showcase your comedic chops employing as unexpected and controversial material as can be without ending up on somebody's hit list? If so, "The death of Stalin" is an epic fail for an otherwise acclaimed comediograph.
Why then?
I guess I'll never know. The taste of "The death of Stalin" is so bad, my viewing capacity had run out in twenty minutes. I just got tired of looking at mock-Moscow (filmed, unsurprisingly, in Kiev, Ukraine - wink wink) in full summer bloom. Not to be too pedantic, but I guess it's worth pointing out that Stalin had died on March 5, which was back then, and, despite the global warming, still is the dead of winter in Russia.
Anyway, you let me know, how it ends. Oh, wait...