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57 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattWaititi ... finds such strange, sweet humor in his storytelling that the movie somehow maintains its ballast, even when the tone inevitably (and it feels, necessarily) shifts.
- 85TheWrapSteve PondTheWrapSteve PondA twisted piece of grandly entertaining provocation. ... This is a dark satire that finds a way to make a case for understanding.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s like a Wes Anderson movie set during the Third Reich. ... And yet it’s not as if it’s a terrible movie; it’s actually a studiously conventional movie dressed up in the self-congratulatory “daring” of its look!-let’s-prank-the-Nazis cachet.
- 60Total FilmJane CrowtherTotal FilmJane CrowtherThough it dabbles with the horror of the Third Reich it never examines their worst atrocities ... And that perhaps, is too careless in today’s world of a rising far right and stealth dictatorships. But if you’re looking for giddy escapism, Bowie tunes and an unapologetic good time with a side order of remembrance for of WW2, then you’ll have as much fun as the cast clearly had making this.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe cartoonishness of it, while amusing at the outset, doesn’t wear well as matters deepen and progress.
- 40Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonJojo Rabbit doesn’t lack for ambition or sincerity of purpose — which only makes it more disappointing that the film proves to be so meagre. ... Rather than being bracing or dangerous, this comedy ends up feeling a little too safe, a little too scattered, and a little too inconsequential.
- 40The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt’s oddly safe, given the subject matter, and the humour is similarly sanitised. What Waititi thinks is shockingly audacious is in fact frustratingly timid, he opts for a gentle prod when maybe a punch would do.
- 33The PlaylistCharles BramescoThe PlaylistCharles BramescoTaika Waititi’s self-proclaimed “anti-hate satire” “Jojo Rabbit” exists in service of a single idea, a notion so desperately idealistic that it lands somewhere between naïveté and disingenuousness.
- 0Slant MagazineKeith UhlichSlant MagazineKeith UhlichWaititi is incapable of dealing with the twin horrors of oppression and indoctrination beyond cheap-seats sentimentality and joke-making.