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It’s impossible to address the challenge of Nazi satire without considering “The Day the Clown Cried.” Jerry Lewis’ misbegotten 1972 production found the comedian directing himself as a Jewish ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New Zealand movie director Taika Waititi says he likes a challenge and his satire of Adolf Hitler and Nazi culture may be his riskiest and most successful yet. "Jojo Rabbit," ...

Charlie Chaplin did it in The Great Dictator. Mel Brooks and Jack Benny did in their respective versions of To Be or Not to Be. Brooks also wrote and directed the most hilarious send-up of all with ...

Believe it or not, the film needs more of its very weird idea: Hitler as an imaginary friend to a 10-year-old boy. It isn’t every day you find yourself saying this about a movie, but I’ll go there: ...

"Oh good, another Hitler comedy! It's been too long," said no studio development executive, ever. But of course, absurd as the idea may seem, some attempts to wring humor from the horrors of 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 ...

To start with Jojo Rabbit, we should look at Taika Waititi’s previous films Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, both of which operate in a similar fashion to his latest work. These two movies have the ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

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 ...

“Jojo Rabbit” features high-profile names like Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell but is anchored by a hugely sympathetic young actor, Roman Griffin Davis, as a 10-year-old boy trying to be the very ...