New Delhi, May 15 -- By all accounts, Stanley Kubrick was an obsessive. The kind of maniac who would put an actor through 97 takes because his smile wasn't smug enough. Considered both sadistic and clinical, the director was described by various collaborators as cold, manipulative, machine-like. Yet it took this famously impassive artist to make the most scorching, uproarious, goddamned hilarious anti-war film in cinema history. In the 1964 masterpiece Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb-available for rent on Amazon Prime and Apple TV-Kubrick doesn't just take apart military arrogance and political impotence, he makes them dance.

The film isn't a screed or a sermon, but a ballet of buffoons set on the bri...