Stalin's Wife
  • Release Date: Apr 29, 2005
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  • Summary: This documentary is a fascinating portrait of the spouse of Russia's most notorious dictator.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    70
    What results is an intimate, chatty film, both cheeky and thorough, the kind of high-class historical gossip you might get if an eminent Soviet historian like Robert Conquest or Richard Pipes went to work for the National Enquirer.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    60
    Results are solid, if stylistically unspectacular.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    60
    If Stalin's Wife doesn't provide solid answers, it nonetheless offers a fascinating tapestry of love, madness, politics, suspicions and jealousies.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    30
    Though serviceable as a primer on Soviet history under Stalin, the film's sloppy assemblage of dull interviews and stock footage never comes close to illuminating a life that the Russian people have long cherished as a precious enigma.

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