<em>Jojo Rabbit </em>Is a Fraught Tonal Experiment
Taika Waititi tries to balance zany comedy and grim realism in his new coming-of-age film set in Nazi Germany. He doesn’t quite succeed.
Is Hitler funny? Yes, Hitler, the one who presided over an empire of mass murder, whose name is essentially a . Taika Waititi, the director of charming tales of adolescence such as and , thinks he can be—in fact, the filmmaker is so convinced of that notion, he’s cast himself Hitler in a new coming-of-age comedy set in Nazi Germany. Waititi is coasting on the success of his Marvel movie that
