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Jojo Rabbit | 18 OCT 2019 | WW2 Dramedy from ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE Taika Waititi | Taika Waititi is literally Hitler | 7 Oscars Noms Including Best Picture

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https://www.metacritic.com/feature/fall-film-festival-reviews-2019-tiff-telluride-venice

MetaCritic: Fall Film Festival Recap: Best & Worst of TIFF, Telluride, and Venice

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Comedy/Drama | USA | Directed by Taika Waititi

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2018 Green Book 69
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 88
2016 La La Land 93
2015 Room 86
2014 The Imitation Game

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Can Taika Waititi follow in Charlie Chaplin's footsteps and succeed where Jerry Lewis and (arguably) Roberto Benigni could not? The Thor: Ragnarok director's first original film since 2016's Hunt for the Wilderpeople occupies that rarest, riskiest of film genres: the Holocaust comedy. An "anti-hate satire" set during WWII, and based very loosely on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, Jojo Rabbit centers on a 10-year-old German boy (widely praised newcomer Roman Griffin Davis) who discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their home, and has only his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (played by Waititi himself), to confide in. The film's Toronto debut proved to be just as divisive as you would expect—though it obviously had enough admirers among TIFF audience members to win the coveted People's Choice Award, which is usually a guarantee of an Oscar best picture nomination. (In fact, you have to go back to 2011 to find the last time a People's Choice winner did not get a best picture nod.)

 

What's it like? Twee, for one thing. According to Owen Gleiberman in Variety (and others elsewhere), "It’s like a Wes Anderson movie set during the Third Reich." His chief concern, however, is that the film "pretends to be audacious when it’s actually quite tidy and safe"—a sentiment also voiced by numerous critics. One of those is Screen's Tim Grierson, who is disappointed to find the result "so meagre" and also "a little too safe, a little too scattered, and a little too inconsequential." IndieWire's Eric Kohn sees a "bizarre mishmash of cinematic ingredients" that makes 'Life is Beautiful' look like 'Shoah.'" He also finds the director's approach "misconceived," since skirting around the issue of the Holocaust and making the Nazis so cartoonish is "not only crass but disingenuous." And Slant's Keith Uhlich dismisses the film as "spectacularly wrongheaded" and "shamelessly offensive" (which he means as severe criticisms but could wind up on the movie poster nevertheless), adding, "It doesn’t help that this misguided monstrosity is utterly devoid of laughs." Hannah Woodhead agrees with the latter conclusion in Little White Lies, calling the film "woefully unfunny," though she does admit to some "brief flashes of something worthwhile" in the film.

 

But The Wrap's Steve Pond finds a successful film that works as "a twisted piece of grandly entertaining provocation," while Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt thinks that Waititi "takes a big, wild swing" and mostly connects, save only for a slightly wobbly ending. And Slashfilm's Chris Evangelista praises a "remarkable" film that "is both a magic trick and a high-wire act." So despite the major criticisms, you'll still see Jojo Rabbit on some year-end top-10 lists. You can decide for yourself when the film opens in theaters on October 18.

 

 

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40 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

a disconnect between critics and audiences is not too uncommon. I'm more surprised by the fact that Joker didn't make it as the runner up. 

Joker was never going to make it but shock is that Just Mercy didn't make it even though it was tipped for making a showing. Which is an excellent news for Joker considering it is Joker's in-studio competition. 

 

 

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56 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

a disconnect between critics and audiences is not too uncommon. I'm more surprised by the fact that Joker didn't make it as the runner up. 

More like a disconnect with some of the critics and agreement with others.  So far top RT critics are at 50/50  (pretty much MCs as well) while RT overall is 75/25 with a 7.32 avg

 

I didn't think Joker was in the running. I'm surprised A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood didn't even make runner up. Knives Out and Waves also seemed to have some momentum.

 

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Knives is likely going to get the Original Screenplay nom but it could make SAG ensemble too (though Picture isn't guaranteed like in CRA case). 

 

I also think that Jojo may benefit from slower rise in critics ratings because it won't get backlash as overpraised/overhyped/overrated.

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TIFF audience had the same top 3 as the consensus of TIFF critics -  different order

 

(Parasite well ahead in film and director)

 

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/tiff-2019-critics-survey-toronto-best-films-performances-parasite-adam-driver-1202174083/

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TIFF 2019 Report Card: Critics Rank the Best Films and Performances
322 critics voted in the survey, which diverged from the TIFF People's Choice Award for the second year in a row.


BEST NARRATIVE FILM

Based on a ranked Top 3.

1. “Parasite” (10% of overall vote and 17% of first-place votes)

2. “Marriage Story” (9% of overall vote and 13% of first-place votes)

3. “Jojo Rabbit” (6% of overall vote and 8% of first-place votes)

4. “Knives Out” (6% of overall votes and 6% of first-place votes)

5. “Joker” (5% of overall votes and 5% of first-place votes)

These Top 5 alone account for 36% of all overall votes and 49% of first-place votes with all other narrative films in the lineup accounting for the remainder.


BEST SCREENPLAY

A single vote was cast for this section – percentages indicate the amount of the overall total vote each film received.

1. “Marriage Story” (20.57%)

2. “Knives Out” (14.87%)

3. “Parasite” (9.81%)

4. “Jojo Rabbit” (8.86%)


5. “The Two Popes” (4.11%)

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1 hour ago, TalismanRing said:

TIFF audience had the same top 3 as the consensus of TIFF critics -  different order

 

(Parasite well ahead in film and director)

 

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/tiff-2019-critics-survey-toronto-best-films-performances-parasite-adam-driver-1202174083/

Jennifer Lopez being the only female in the "Best performance" top 5 critics ranking is concerning. I thought ScarJo and Rene were very well received?

 

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8 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

Jennifer Lopez being the only female in the "Best performance" top 5 critics ranking is concerning. I thought ScarJo and Rene were very well received?

 

 

It's not that ScarJo and Renee's performances weren't well-received; I think it's because the Acting field is, overall, much stronger for Actors than it is for Actresses this year. It's common to have years where the field of Actors has more strong contenders than the field of Actresses (like 2012 for example), or where the field of Actresses has more strong contenders than the field of Actors (like 2016 for example). I'm sure Renee and ScarJo will still capitalize on the notices they've received.

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