The Death of Stalin (2017)

[Frayed Knot]

A somewhat less than historically accurate, but considerably more entertaining, account of the scramble for power in the days following Stalin's death in 1953
That Michael Palin, Jeffrey Tamboor and Steve Buchemi (as Nikita Krushchev) play members of the ruling elite here probably tells you the direction the movie is taking.

[Frayed Knot]

I see a second vote has been cast, so it appears that I'm not the only one still kneeling in the piss here.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Meant to be really funny, but wasn't always, and that sort of took some of the funniness out of it.

[Vic Sage]

I'm splitting the difference.

[RealityChuck]

Brilliant bit of historical comedy. Who needs accuracy when something like this is made?

One of the best movies of the year.

[Frayed Knot]

Recently re-saw this one, and I'm going with 'pretty damn funny'. Except as it got more serious towards the end, but at that point it needed to considering where the story was headed.
Although at the very, very end I hope all who saw it caught the scene where Khrushchev is in the concert hall listening to the very same pianist from earlier and the crawl is describing how he would go on to consolidate power by 1953 and run the country until he himself was disposed by Brezhnev in '64 ... and right behind him in the audience is a younger guy with really thick and dark eyebrows staring at the back of his head with an 'I'm coming after you old man' look on his face. Nice touch.

So, yeah, probably my favorite of this past year also.