The Best Stanley Kubrick Movies, Definitively Ranked

A singular accomplishment, getting us to laugh at our total nuclear annihilation. Looking back, are the early ’60s Kubrick’s Comedy Period, or was he just working with Peter Sellers a lot? There are certainly funny moments in the remaining half-dozen movies he’d make after Dr. Strangelove, but there’s also a sense of, OK, if we’re going to do a real comedy, let’s do the last one. Is that idea arrogant or visionary? Probably both, as evidenced by the fact that Strangelove’s…