Potentially this could go in another thread, but I'll drop my "Death of Stalin" take here even though it's based on a comic book.
I've put more time into processing this than most any movie I see. The pedigree had me expecting a riotous, yet cerebral comedy. Unfortunately, the yucks were quite sporadic. There were very funny moments, just entirely too few of them. I ain't gonna lie, halfway through the movie I had to wonder if this was just going over my head. Once home, I thought I'd check reviews to see if it got eviscerated like I thought it would. Nope, 95% on RT, Metacritic = 88, so this isn't just a bunch of critics saying "it's alright", it was getting effusive praise. I dug deeper into my go-to critics and they too, loved it, like 4/4 stars. So I still have to think I just didn't get it.
This is the first movie I can remember where I thought "Did not like" and also "Need to see it again." Maybe it helps to not go in expecting VEEP but rather be thinking more along the lines of "The Lobster".
Back to pedigree, Eric Idle is not in the movie, Michael Palin is.
To TD&TF, I really liked "In the Loop", even though I thought it was a notch below the better seasons of "The Thick of It". There's clearly a common ancestor between ITL and TDOS, both are extremely biting satires. I just had more laughs from the former.