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 ...

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 – ...

“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.

If there was a category for weirdest movie of the year, the Oscar nominated Jojo Rabbit would be a contender. Written and directed by Taika Waititi, the comedy-drama follows a young boy (Roman Griffin ...

Jojo Rabbit grips audiences by portraying a highly uncomfortable topic, that of the Holocaust, through the lens of a young boy enamored with the Nazis. The film's titular character is Jojo Betzler, a ...

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 ...

"Jojo Rabbit" isn't the only attempt to mine humor from Nazi characters, and there's a reason why it's so hard to pull off. It’s impossible to address the challenge of Nazi satire without considering ...

Set during World War II, Jojo Rabbit is about a 10-year-old Hitler Youth who is so passionate about his Nazism that he has Adolf Hitler as an imaginary friend. It's a peculiar role to take on, but one ...

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 ...

Taika Waititi and Roman Griffin Davis in "Jojo Rabbit." Kimberley French The opening scenes of “Jojo Rabbit” evoke the obsessive visual stylings of Wes Anderson, as a 10-year-old German boy, Jojo ...