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Dr. Strangelove
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1964
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51
Negative reviews
8
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5.0
If movies of this irreverence, intelligence and savagery were still being made, the world would seem a younger place.
Rogerebert
5.0
Parents need to know Dr. Strangelove is a 1964 dark humored satire on Cold War politics and nuclear weaponry directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Common Sense Media
4.5
As the cigar chomping General, Hayden emerges a tragi comic hero.
Variety
4.5
Perhaps Kubricks most perfectly realised film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with come ..
Time Out
5.0
By a whopping margin, this is Kubricks most radical film and greatest dramatic gamble.
Time Out
5.0
Age has not withered that final queasy nightmare of the mushroom clouds, set to Vera Lynns hopeful Well Meet Again underscoring how the certainties of ..
The Guardian
4.4
Kubricks punchline isnt that the destruction of humanity is one big sunny joke; its that humanity has already passive aggressively done itself in.
4.5
Kubrick has shown before that he is a director of rare gifts. Dr. Strangelove brings them into full realization.
The Hollywood Reporter
5.0
Thirty five years after its making, this film seems even more insidiously knowing and on target than and undoubtedly the most hilarious anti war state ..
3.0
My reaction to it is quite divided, because there is so much about it that is grand, so much that is brilliant and amusing, and much that is grave and ..
The New York Times
5.0
Fifty two years on, the movie is still more hip than most of what American filmmakers Hollywood or indie can muster.
E Film Critic
5.0
Christopher Robin Winnie the Pooh is a giant of childrens literature for a reason.His mixture .. Teen Titans Go!
4.8
This is one of the greatest political satires, if not the greatest ever made.
Sover
5.0
As a black comedy, wielding a wit sharper than honed steel, the film is unparalleled.
ReelViews
5.0
The film is a model of barely controlled hysteria in which the absurdity of hypermasculine Cold War posturing becomes devastatingly funny and at the s ..
Tv Guide
5.0
It remains that Dr. Strangelove is an extremely funny movie today.
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
The less than enthralling vibe is compounded by a narrative that is, to put it mildly, rather disjointed, with the almost total lack of an entry point ..
Reel Film Reviews
5.0
Is Dr. Strangelove Kubricks best movie Along with Paths of Glory, absolutely.
Boston
4.0
Its been described as a nightmare comedy, and its certainly nightmarish, but it took about 40 years of distance to make it much of a comedy for me.
Mountain X
2.0
As Andrew saris pointed out, the films visual gravity created an odd tension with its verbal levity and its fondness for caricature.
Emanuellevy
5.0
The result is one of the most astonishingly unexpected comedies ever made, a film that is both hilarious and unnerving.
Q Network
4.5
A comedy dependent on its slew of performances, Kubrick elicits an often wacky and dark tone without ever really resorting his characters and actors t ..
Cinema Crazed
5.0
Its playfulness disguises an unusual intelligence; its witty script is a real delight.
Eye For Film
4.5
Though the style of humor is far from subtle, its still pretty clever.
Bullz-Eye
2.0
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Coles Mithey
4.5
A fantastically satirical picture with many chuckles and a goodly amount of suspense.
Boxoffice Magazine
4.0
While still politically relevant, the Cold War audiences of the 60s were better primed to welcome the irony.
5.0
Indeed, it is the sheer scale of the catastrophe that makes is impossible to understand, effectively rendering it meaningless for those with the power ..
Cine Vue
5.0
The blackest black comedy ever made by a major Hollywood studio, and one of the funniest handful of films made in English.
Antagony & Ecstasy
5.0
You have to see this movie, it is simply one of the best comedies of all time.
Montreal Film Journal
2.0
This film is able to exploit that craziness of attitudes prevailing and make a stinging satirical comedy out of it; its a film that is not pass, even ..
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
5.0
Hes also given us an innovative sci fi film in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Solzy At The Movies
4.5
And, thanks to its cast and its smarts, it will always be hilarious.
Crave Online
2.0
Kubricks film remains hilarious, but we laugh as loudly as we do nervously.
Movie Mezzanine
3.5
A moment of pure dark cynicism unequalled in the history of cinema.
Scifi Movie Page
5.0
Sometimes the funniest, most uncomfortably truthful films do just that.
Streaming Quickflix
4.5
Like most of his work, Stanley Kubricks deadly black satirical comedy thriller on cold war madness and its possible effects (1964) has aged well.
Chicago Reader
4.5
supremely ironic comedy on the possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Film4
4.5
Its unflinching and bold plotting is characteristic to Kubricks filmmaking, and yet continues to surprise.Dr Strangelove is truly one of the greatest ..
Trespass Mag
4.5
I think this is a film I will need to see again especially for the Sellars performances. But I really hope the opening scroll is correct and nothing l ..
Battleship Pretension
5.0
The shameful, criminal wrongs depicted in this document from the past are with us today.
Net Flix
4.5
As agreeable as a parable of Cold War paranoia possibly can be, Dr. Strangelove still is the definitive nuclear doomsday movie, largely on account of ..
Esquire
5.0
Dr Strangelove is one of Stanley Kubricks many masterpieces, one of the greatest films about the Cold War and one of the greatest comedies ever made.
Cinema Autopsy
4.5
It struck me at the tine and it strikes me now that Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant and edifying, even a moral, movie.
OutWeek
5.0
That constant fear was something I was glad to leave behind, even if the risk today isnt much less.
Caution Spoilers
5.0
In the hands of the titular character, an ex nazi scientist loosely based on Werner Von Braun, the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction was truly MAD ..
The Nation
0.0
...his film is a protest against the dehumanization which makes it possible for some strategists to mention acceptable casualties of tens of millions ..
Maclean's Magazine
4.5
It was a most uncomfortable experience. It was about as funny as a creeping case of cancer... Despite this carping I must admit that Dr. Strangelove w ..
Los Angeles Free Press
4.5
Heck, I reckon you wouldnt even be human beins if you didnt have some pretty strong personal feelings about nuclear combat.I want you to remember one ..
Film Site
5.0
Such a farce, yet unless youre really paying attention you might just pass off this brief moment.
Father Son Holy Gore
5.0
Though the principals in the race to Armageddon may have changed since Kubricks time, his film is still as effective a piece of satire as ever.
Dogandwolf
0.5
The ultimate put down of Cold War warriors and Pentagon paranoiacs...
Boulder Weekly
5.0
Kubrick simply transformed a serious military thriller into a surreal farce of ideological hysteria and military arrogance.
Seanax
5.0
Stanley Kubricks 40 year old satirical polital comedy about the end of the world is especially disturbing as one ponders world events at present.
Blunt Review
5.0
The paradigm of all end of the world political thrillers and a part of the American vernacular.
Boston Herald
5.0
Its a darkly farcical time capsule preserving the justified fear and often lunatic paranoia of the Cold War.Even without that context, it remains a su ..
Dvd Journal
4.5
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is the funniest and most serious American movie in a long time.
Esquire Magazine
1.5
... like a morbidly sick Looney Tunes short with its cartoon heroes struggling impotently to keep hold of a hot potato.
DVD Review
4.5
Dr. Strangelove remains a classic for a number of reasons, but when it comes to assessing its genius, I suspect its signature absurdity matters less t ..
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