Satires Of The World, Unite

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2019)

The Death of Stalin is good satire about the power struggle that ensued after, well, the death of Stalin. I'm sure there are people who will pick away at historical inaccuracies. Ignore them. This is satire not a documentary. I don't look to this movie for historical perspective any more than David Irving would look to Life Is Beautiful for a deeper understanding of the Holocaust.
Reagan once quipped that he couldn't get anywhere with the Russians because they kept dying on him. This movie has a similar problem. There are funny scenes that are Marx Brothers and Python-esque, but then it throws in the occasional mass murder and execution.
That shouldn't deter anyone from watching it though. It's running time clocks in at 1 hr 47 mins and there are enough laughs to justify sitting through to the end.