When that joke was told by a German armaments factory worker to her colleague in 1943, it resulted in her execution at the hands of the Nazi People's Court. The winner of the Toronto Film Festival's ...
Critics across the U.S., including the city of Spokane, are debating the worth of New Zealand-born filmmaker Taika Waititi’s offbeat comedy “Jojo Rabbit.” In the review that I wrote for Spokane Public ...
Taika Waititi’s unconventional World War II film Jojo Rabbit is a combination of drama and comedy, and its most emotional moment is what happens to Jojo Rabbit'smom. Following the success of Thor: ...
It goes without saying that “Jojo Rabbit” shouldn’t work. A coming-of-age comedy whose hero is a 10-year-old German boy during World War II who wants to grow up to be a Nazi? Adolf Hitler as comic ...
Directed by Taika Waititi (known for Thor: Ragnarok), Jojo Rabbit is a quasi-dark comedy based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. Set in the later stages of World War II in Nazi Germany ...
Jojo Rabbit is a biting satire of the inanity at the heart of Nazism, embodied in a 10-year-old German boy at the height of World War II. It’s also a heart-warming tale of how this 10-year-old Nazi ...
Costume designer Mayes C. Rubeo breaks down 'Jojo Rabbit's' WWII looks, including smart architecturally inspired hats; tweed, plaid and zigzag Missoni-style patterns; and high-waisted baggy pants and ...
“Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi’s uber-ironic black comedy about the last days of Nazi Germany, has its wacky, subversive pleasures, as anyone familiar with the New Zealand-born filmmaker’s work knows.
While watching “Jojo Rabbit” (2019), the audience is asked to laugh at — and sometimes, along with — the film’s main character, Jojo “Rabbit” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis). Jojo is a devout Adolf ...
This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Jojo Rabbit opens in the US on Oct. 18, in Australia on Dec. 26, and in the UK on Jan. 3, 2020. You can watch our video review ...