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

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

Kubrick has shown before that he is a director of rare gifts. Dr. Strangelove brings them into full realization.

| Jan 31, 2019

Of the many films considered great satire, only Dr. Strangelove holds up as a masterpiece with none of its bite removed.

| Original Score: A | Aug 7, 2014

By a whopping margin, this is Kubrick's most radical film and greatest dramatic gamble.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 13, 2014

Black comedy Kubrick classic for smart teens+.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 22, 2010

To me, Dr. Strangelove is an evil thing about an evil thing; you will have to make up your own mind about it.

| Jul 6, 2010

Dr. Strangelove's status as the movie that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick's reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 16, 2009

Like most of his work, Stanley Kubrick's deadly black satirical comedy-thriller on cold war madness and its possible effects (1964) has aged well.

| May 8, 2007

Perhaps Kubrick's most perfectly realised film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with comedy.

| Jan 26, 2006

It still features Peter Sellers' finest three performances as well as proving that the supposedly humourless Kubrick was up for a laugh.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 2, 2005

This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 26, 2004

Stanley Kubrick's blackest of black comedies.

Full Review | Nov 18, 2004

Is Dr. Strangelove Kubrick's best movie? Along with Paths of Glory, absolutely.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 5, 2004

Stanley Kubrick's first genuinely original movie has been seen, reseen, dissected, and iconized, but a few sly truths about it have yet to be fully grokked.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2004

The most shattering sick joke I've ever come across.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's one of the greatest - and undoubtably the most hilarious - antiwar statements ever put to film. See it before the world ends.

| Jan 1, 2000

Dr. Strangelove (1964) is filled with great comic performances.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000