Taika Waititi is everywhere right now — between prepping for the Thor: Love and Thunder production, working on a secret project, and promoting his role in The Mandalorian — but he was definitely at ...

It goes without saying that “Jojo Rabbit” shouldn’t work. A coming-of-age comedy whose hero is a 10-year-old German boy during World War II who wants to grow up to be a Nazi? Adolf Hitler as comic ...

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 ...

This image released by Fox Searchlight Pictures shows, from left, Roman Griffin Davis, Taika Waititi and Scarlett Johansson in a scene from the WWII satirical film "Jojo Rabbit." (Kimberley French/Fox ...

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 ...

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: ...

A round of applause, please, for filmmaker Taika Waititi, for the courage he employs in his biting Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit.” Not for making a comedy about Adolf Hitler but for daring, in an age when ...

Unlikely though it sounds, we have a need to laugh at Adolf Hitler, on the movie screen if nowhere else. Some of our greatest comedy directors, from Charles Chaplin (“The Great Dictator”) to Ernst ...

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