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Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

Stanley Kubrick

Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, James Earl Jones ...

7.9

49,028

Comedy. War Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Russians' top-secret Doomsday Machine. The film has three main centers of action: one of the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Every time you see a great film, you find new things in it (...) [It] is filled with great comic performances (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"There is so much about it that is grand, so much that is brilliant and amusing, and much that is grave and dangerous."	POS
United Kingdom	Sheila Johnston Telegraph	"A brilliant performance from Peter Sellers (...) It is sometimes said that 'Dr Strangelove', brilliant as it still unquestionably is, has lost its bite. Not at all (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kaufman Variety	"Stanley Kubrick has with skill and daring fashioned a sharply satirical comedy (...) It emerges as a most unusual combination of comedy and suspense (...) Peter Sellers is excellent"	POS
United Kingdom	John Patterson The Guardian	"A comic masterpiece that's also deeply serious and perceptive about the mad military mindset of those times, 'Dr Strangelove's genius endures"	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"Zippy, ruthless, and cartoonish (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dorian Lynskey Empire	"It still features Peter Sellers' finest three performances as well as proving that the supposedly humourless Kubrick was up for a laugh (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"With 'Dr. Strangelove', Kubrick shot a brilliant satire like a straight thriller (...) Shooting 'Dr. Strangelove' as if it were 'Paths Of Glory' makes its ridiculous elements at once funnier and more chilling"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] has aged well (...) The manic, cartoonish performances of George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Peter Sellers (...) look as brilliant as ever"	POS

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