Eleanor Ringel Cater
‘The Death of Stalin’ – an excellent farce by Armando Iannucci set in 1953 Russia
As fans of “Veep” already know (and we are legion), nobody does mordant political vaudeville like Armando Iannucci. His touch is swift, sure and utterly poisonous.
No wonder the frenetic power coup chronicled in his excellent new film, “The Death of Stalin,” is as much Monty Python and Marx Brothers as it is social commentary.