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 ...

With the real world in literal flames and global politics riven by a re-emergence of far-right nationalism, Taika Waititi’s newest sounds like treacherous territory for the Thor: Ragnorok and What We ...

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 ...

“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.

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the uncomfortably funny, unapologetically insensitive, cheerfully outrageous “Jojo Rabbit,” writer-director Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnorak”) delivers a timely, anti-hate, fractured fairy tale AND ...