tireless machinations, and frail allegiances, absolutely no one is safe; not even the feared chief of the secret police, Lavrenti Beria. In the end, who will prevail after the death of Stalin?

In other words, it's the movie Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the entire GOP caucus need to see right goddamn now. The Death of Stalin trailer cued us up to expect a Monty Python-style farce ...

Film critics are widely praising "The Death of Stalin," a sharp political satire of the Soviet government that takes place in 1953, immediately following the death of dictator Josef Stalin.