Jojo Rabbit‘s pitch is clear and compelling: like a Wes Anderson movie, only the Boy Scouts are Nazis. “You’re not a Nazi, you’re a 10-year-old kid who likes to dress up in a funny uniform and be part ...

When 19-year-old actress Thomasin McKenzie met Taika Waititi — the director and her costar in the film “Jojo Rabbit” — for the first time, he suggested she watch “Heathers” and “Mean Girls” to get ...

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 ...

For the first half or so of the fantastic “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi cooks up a delicious serving of absurdism. The writer-director is at the controls of a World War II satire that plays like a Wes ...