Stanley Kubrick’s B52 bomber jet-black satire of foolish politicians and the military might(y dumb) that backs them into the apocalypse ... [is] one of the greatest films of all end times.

| Apr 23, 2025

‘…Dr Strangelove is a film for the ages, and a jet-black comedy that shows off Peter Sellers to his best advantage…’

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 7, 2023

The result is one of the funniest films ever made, Kubrick’s most unequivocal commentary, and perhaps cinema’s most disturbing take on the illusion of our control.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 6, 2022

For me at any rate farce makes the theme of Dr. Strangelove not only more bearable, but also more believable. After all it is difficult to accept Doomsday unless as a monstrous joke.

| Aug 8, 2022

Dr. Strangelove is irreverent to a point of savagery; it is funny and it is engrossing. And it’s heady stuff for movie-goers, for Kubrick, boy genius that he is, assumes that we’re grown-up enough to share his bitter laughter.

| Aug 8, 2022

Successful and timeless satire is quite a rare and tricky beast. “Dr. Strangelove” is and will forever remain one of the finest movies (of any genre) ever produced.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 2, 2022

Probably Kubrick's biggest gamble, resulted in a classic that has aged finely. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2021

Few satires are stranger or sharper, and there are few funnier films that come from a weirder and braver starting point than Dr Strangelove.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 4, 2021

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 like this can ever actually happen.

| Mar 24, 2021

While still politically relevant, the Cold War audiences of the '60s were better primed to welcome the irony.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 24, 2020

Dr. Strangelove is one of [Stanley Kubrick's] very best movies.

| Aug 10, 2020

Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, remains a genius political satire.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2020

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 was a memorable film, one worth seeing and one which took courage to make and even to exhibit.

| Feb 5, 2020

It struck me at the time and it strikes me now that Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant and edifying, even a moral, movie.

| Oct 16, 2019

...his film is a protest against the dehumanization which makes it possible for some strategists to mention "acceptable" casualties of tens of millions in the first few hours of a nuclear "victory."

| Oct 7, 2019

Though the principals in the race to Armageddon may have changed since Kubrick's time, his film is still as effective a piece of satire as ever.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 15, 2019

Age has not withered that final queasy nightmare of the mushroom clouds, set to Vera Lynn's hopeful We'll Meet Again - underscoring how the certainties of the second world war ceased to hold their meaning in the nuclear age.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 15, 2019

Brilliant, bold, very funny, and terrifyingly plausible beneath its surface absurdities. (4k restoration and new short film)

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 8, 2019

The satire and its execution, from George C. Scott to Peter Sellers in his three roles, is first and foremost what makes things work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 7, 2019

Nothing would seen to be farther apart than nuclear war and comedy, yet Kubrick's caper eloquently tackles a Fail-Safe subject with a light touch.

| Apr 22, 2019