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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Seen after 30 years, Dr. Strangelove seems remarkably fresh and undated - a clear-eyed, irreverant, dangerous satire. And its willingness to follow the situation to its logical conclusion - nuclear annihilation - has a purity that today's lily-livered happy-ending technicians would probably find a way around.
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100
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
Is ''Dr. Strangelove" Kubrick's best movie? Along with ''Paths of Glory," absolutely.
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100
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time.
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100
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
A masterpiece... The genius of Dr. Strangelove is that it's possible to laugh -- and laugh hard -- while still recognizing the intelligence and insight behind the humor.
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100
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
More lethal than a nuclear waste dump, Kubrick's komedy at least kills us with laughter... It's one of the greatest - and undoubtably the most hilarious - antiwar statements ever put to film.
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100
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Village Voice Michael Atkinson
The hard-charging originality of the screenplay-the equivalent of turning "The Hot Zone" into a Farrelly comedy-suggests a deficient legacy of credit to Terry Southern's corner.
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100
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Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Kubrick's comic gem sparkles with enduring relevance.
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TV Guide
The film is a model of barely controlled hysteria in which the absurdity of hypermasculine Cold War posturing becomes devastatingly funny--and at the same time nightmarishly frightening in its accuracy.
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90
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Variety
George C. Scott as the fiery Pentagon general who seizes on the crisis as a means to argue for total annihilation of Russia offers a top performance, one of the best in the film. Odd as it may seem in this backdrop, he displays a fine comedy touch.
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70
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The New York Times
The ultimate touch of ghoulish humor is when we see the bomb actually going off, dropped on some point in Russia, and a jazzy sound track comes in with a cheerful melodic rendition of "We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day." Somehow, to me, it isn't funny. It is malefic and sick.
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