In 2019, a year when most people try their hardest not to offend, not to make light of racism and cruelty, Taika Waititi’s Hitler comedy “Jojo Rabbit” should not work. To make a drama about Nazi ...
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 ...
How do you find levity in one of the darkest periods in human history? How could an actor today portray Adolf Hitler as a silly man, sharing his outlandish ideas with casual enthusiasm? Is it possible ...
An enchanting, whimsical satire about the absurdity of war as seen through a child's eyes, "Jojo Rabbit" doubles as an important film about the need for understanding in a divided world. In addition ...
With his hilarious, heart-shattering World War II satire "Jojo Rabbit," audacious writer, director and actor Taika Waititi triumphantly balances comedy and tragedy, history and fantasy. “Jojo Rabbit” ...
A round of applause, please, for filmmaker Taika Waititi, for the courage he employs in his biting Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit.” Not for making a comedy about Adolf Hitler but for daring, in an age when ...
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 ...
Roman Griffin Davis made his acting debut in the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit at age 12, winning a Critics' Choice Award, and has ...
In a recent episode of NPR’s “Fresh Air,” a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church – infamous for putting its hateful ideology on shameless display at the funerals of U.S. servicemembers – ...
For Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Patton Oswalt pens a tribute to “Jojo Rabbit” (written by Taika Waititi [screenplay] and Christine Leunens [based on the novel by]). For more, click here. Sixty years ...
I normally don’t enter spaces actively conscious of my identity as a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. However, I was highly aware of my Judaism as I nervously entered the theater to see Jojo Rabbit ...