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Jojo Rabbit

2019

Taika Waititi

Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi ...

7.2

35,079

Comedy. Drama Lonely German boy Jojo "Rabbit" Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) has his world view turned upside down when he discovers that his single mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

	Author	Review
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"An audacious piece of Third Reich whimsy that almost definitely shouldn’t work as well as it does, considering it’s about a boy whose imaginary best friend is Hitler."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Love it or hate it, Taika Waititi’s singularly silly take on the WWII coming-of-age movie is damn near impossible to shake (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The humor is so audacious and the psychological insight at times so startling that it’s hard not to be dismayed when an easy and familiar dose of comfort is supplied at the end."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"What gives 'Jojo Rabbit' its 'specialness', what makes it a kind of 'Moonrise Kingdom' with swastikas and German Shepherd jokes, is that it lacks the courage of its own conventionality."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] won't please all crowds (...) The cartoonishness of it, while amusing at the outset, doesn’t wear well as matters deepen and progress"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A charming muddle of good intentions (...) the filmmaker’s light touch never matches the nature of his setting"	NEU
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"Waititi understands the power of comedy and love over hate, and had made that lesson easily accessible in the hilarious and sweet Jojo Rabbit"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[It] lacks the punch it needs to really work. It’s far from the disaster it could have been given the tonal tightrope it walks, but it’s also closer to a misfire than we all hoped it would be (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"Waititi’s World War II satire is both a magic trick and a high-wire act (...) A heartfelt, sweet, blackly comedic coming-of-age journey that tries to find hope in hopeless times."	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Waititi doesn’t really know what to do with his imaginary Hitler past an increasingly repetitive cycle of decreasingly funny acts of idiocy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Damon Wise The Times	"There’s a sweetness that’s quite extraordinary (...) A special film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Part Nazi satire, part cockeyed children’s fable, Jojo Rabbit doesn’t lack for ambition or sincerity of purpose — which only makes it more disappointing that the film proves to be so meagre"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] fails to attack or even really notice evil (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"[It] is tender, daring, and sharp – precisely pitched so that it keeps its path steady and its ambitions in check (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lewis Knight Mirror	"Waititi succeeds in treading a fine line by handling some supremely weighty messages and topics in a way that is also both digestible to children and told through the eyes of them with fantastical innocence (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich Slant	"Waititi is incapable of dealing with the twin horrors of oppression and indoctrination beyond cheap-seats sentimentality and joke-making (…) Rating: 0 (out of 4)"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"[It works with] tensions throughout: between laughter and groans, between emotion and sentimentality, between daring and bad taste (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"Waititi is using a child’s eye to offer new perspectives on the insanity of Nazism (...) It may not be perfect, but 'Jojo Rabbit' is an honest film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"There's a real sense of good-hearted humour and a boldness to it that is refreshing, even if it doesn't work all of the time (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Laura Delaney RTÉ	"At times 'Jojo Rabbit' keeps the audience at arm's length, and the script occasionally misses the mark, but it hops along with enough tenderness to engage the mind and take viewers on a satirical ride (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS

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