The Leader, (Film Review) Jojo Rabit, “self-questioning triggers the start of a gradual turn toward the sinister in his imaginary friend version of Der Führer”
“Jojo Rabbit” is one of the most gravity-defying hybrids of dark comedy and earnest pathos I’ve seen since Mel Brooks was in his prime.
Writer-director Taika Waititi adapted Christine Leunens’ satirical 2004 novel “Caging Skies,” but the result feels like the 1984 Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman film “Cloak & Dagger,” cross-pollinated with Spire Comics’ 1973 “Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika.”