Editing Dr. Strangelove (section)

== Reception ==
=== Critical response ===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|98||96|Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in 1964.|ref=yes|access-date=May 17, 2025}} ''Dr. Strangelove'' is Kubrick's highest-rated film on the site.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/stanley_kubrick/ |title=STANLEY KUBRICK |access-date=November 30, 2016 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=Flixster |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201081405/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/stanley_kubrick/ |url-status=live }}</ref> {{Metacritic film prose|97|32|ref=yes|access-date=May 17, 2025}} The film is ranked number 7 in the All-Time High Scores chart of Metacritic's Video/DVD section.<ref name=metacritic>{{Cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/highscores.shtml |title=DVD/Video: All-Time High Scores |website=Metacritic |access-date=August 22, 2010 |archive-date=August 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819091301/http://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/all?sort=desc |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The film was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]]. It was on [[Roger Ebert]]'s list of ''[[The Great Movies]]'', and he described it as "arguably the best political satire of the century".<ref name=Ebert>Roger Ebert, [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990711/REVIEWS08/907110301/1023 "Dr. Strangelove (1964)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315192719/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19990711%2FREVIEWS08%2F907110301%2F1023 |date=March 15, 2013 }}, July 11, 1999</ref> One of the most celebrated of all film comedies,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/378353/gentlemen-you-cant-fight-war-room-michael-potemra |title=Gentlemen! You Can't Fight in the War Room! |last=Potemra |first=Michael |magazine=National Review |date=May 20, 2014 |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220162640/http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/378353/gentlemen-you-cant-fight-war-room-michael-potemra |url-status=live }}</ref> in 1998, ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' conducted a reader's poll and ''Dr. Strangelove'' was voted the 47th greatest film of all time.<ref>{{cite web |work=[[AMC (TV channel)|AMC Filmsite.org]] |url=http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html |title=Top 100 Films (Readers) |publisher=American Movie Classics Company |access-date=August 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718213202/http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html |archive-date=July 18, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' voted it at No. 14 on their list of ''100 Greatest Movies of All Time''.<ref>{{cite web|title = Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time|url = http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html|publisher = [[Filmsite.org]]|access-date = January 19, 2009|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140331185517/http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html|archive-date = March 31, 2014|df = dmy-all}}</ref> in 2002, it was ranked as the 5th best film in [[Sight & Sound#The Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time|''Sight & Sound'' poll of best films]].<ref>[http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors.html Sight & Sound's directors' poll] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229141901/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors.html |date=December 29, 2007}} (no longer available {{as of|2015|February|1|lc=y}})</ref> John Patterson of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote, "There had been nothing in comedy like ''Dr Strangelove'' ever before. All the gods before whom the America of the stolid, paranoid 50s had genuflected—the Bomb, the Pentagon, the National Security State, the President himself, Texan masculinity and the alleged Commie menace of water-fluoridation—went into the wood-chipper and never got the same respect ever again."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/dr-strangelove-kubrick-comedy |title=Dr Strangelove: No 6 best comedy film of all time |last=Patterson |first=John |newspaper=The Guardian |date=October 18, 2010 |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=August 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807135457/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/dr-strangelove-kubrick-comedy |url-status=live }}</ref> It is also listed as number 26 on ''[[Empire (magazine)#Current List, The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time|Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time]]'', and in 2010 it was listed by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine as one of the 100 best films since the publication's inception in 1923.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2005/02/12/all-time-100-movies/slide/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-1964/ |title=Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |last=Schickel |first=Richard |magazine=Time |date=January 13, 2010 |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=December 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161216102051/http://entertainment.time.com/2005/02/12/all-time-100-movies/slide/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-1964/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Writers Guild of America, West|Writers Guild of America]] ranked its screenplay the 12th best ever written.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list |title=101 Greatest Screenplays |publisher=Writers Guild of America, West |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-date=November 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161122211118/http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2000, readers of ''[[Total Film]]'' magazine voted it the 24th greatest comedic film of all time. The film ranked 42nd in the BBC's 2015 list of the 100 greatest American films.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 100 Greatest American Films|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|website=bbc|date=July 20, 2015|access-date=February 24, 2021|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114132906/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was selected as the 2nd best comedy of all time in a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time|title=The 100 greatest comedies of all time|date=August 22, 2017|website=BBC Culture|access-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref>

The February 2020 issue of ''[[New York Magazine]]'' lists ''Dr. Strangelove'' as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-oscar-best-picture-losers.html|magazine=[[New York Magazine]]|access-date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>

In 2024, filmmaker [[Michael Mann]] cited it as one of his favorite films of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/movies/michael-mann-letterboxd-14-favorite-movies-battleship-potemkin-poor-things/|title=Heat director joins Letterboxd and shares his 14 favorite movies – and, predictably, he has great taste |magazine=GamesRadar+ |date=July 4, 2024 |access-date=March 23, 2025}}</ref>

=== Studio response ===
Columbia Pictures' early reaction to ''Dr. Strangelove'' was anything but enthusiastic. In "Notes From The War Room", in the summer 1994 issue of ''[[Grand Street (magazine)|Grand Street]]'' magazine, co-screenwriter Terry Southern recalled that, as production neared the end, "It was about this time that word began to reach us, reflecting concern as to the nature of the film in production. Was it anti-American? Or just anti-military? And the jackpot question: Was it, in fact, anti-American to whatever extent it was anti-military?"<ref name="terrysouthern">{{Cite web|last=Southern|first=Terry|title=Notes from the War Room|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4125-notes-from-the-war-room|access-date=December 27, 2020|website=The Criterion Collection|language=en|archive-date=December 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206223218/https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4125-notes-from-the-war-room|url-status=live}}</ref>

Southern recalled how Kubrick grew concerned about seeming apathy and distancing by studio heads Abe Schneider and [[Mo Rothman]], and by Columbia's characterization of the film as "just a zany, novelty flick which did not reflect the views of the corporation in any way."<ref name="terrysouthern"/> Southern noted that Rothman was in "prominent attendance" at a ceremony in 1989 when the [[Library of Congress]] announced it as one of the first 25 films on the National Film Registry.<ref name="terrysouthern" />