Dr. Strangelove

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Mr. Duvall seemed as unhinged as anyone in “Dr. Strangelove,” and yet he’s so deadpan, and so commanding, that as he crouches in the chaos wearing an 1860s-style Cavalry Stetson it’s easy to understand why his boys might follow him everywhere, and even attempt to surf amid the explosions.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s easier to howl at a classic like “Dr. Strangelove,” which mocked the leaders giddyuping the planet’s destruction, than at a present-day satire where we ourselves are the joke.

From Los Angeles Times

Using satire and humor in the vein of an equally powerful film of the early 1960s, “Dr. Strangelove,” it exposes the grotesque, absurd nature of the Stephen Millers and Gregory Bovinos more accurately than a documentary ever could.

From Salon

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon

“In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said, according to the Washington Post.

From The Wall Street Journal