Viewers familiar with the antic wit of Taika Waititi — from such comedies as "What We Do in the Shadows," "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" and "Thor: Ragnarok" — might wonder what he'll next pull out of ...

“It’s definitely not a good time to be a Nazi,” a baby-faced Hitler Youth drily observes in director Taika Waititi’s ambitious, polarizing coming-of-age epic “Jojo Rabbit.” Whether you find a line ...

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 ...

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 ...

At last, the movie that Bialystock and Bloom, in “The Producers,” would have made when they got out of prison and went legit. Whereas they turned their production of “Springtime for Hitler,” intended ...

For all its good intentions, Jojo Rabbit comes across painfully one-note as comedy, bogus and manipulative as drama and with an archly whimsical visual style that feels like imitation Wes Anderson.

"Jojo Rabbit," like "Joker," is seen as a bit of a marmite movie. You love it or you hate it. Taika Waititi's film is a comedy about a kid who has Adolf Hitler as an imaginary friend. It's also a ...