First reviews are in for Taika Waititi's 'Jojo Rabbit' and they are glowing

[masterofmystery]

#JojoRabbit : Taika Waititi knocks it out of der park with the meaningful lunacy of his anti-hate satire. Title 10-year-old, a Nazi in training with Hitler as an imaginary friend, has something to learn: love conquers hate, and laughter makes it easier. #TIFF19 pic.twitter.com/V1eI5QFLvG
- Peter Howell (@peterhowellfilm) September 9, 2019

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[surprisesidney]

Lol OP I think you were a bit hasty here. All the positive reactions came first right after the premiere and then I started seeing all the mixed/negative ones, it's definitely pretty divisive. There's already a 60 and a 40 on Metacritic.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Jojo
- Richard Lawson (@rilaws) September 9, 2019

JOJO RABBIT: it’s the “The Goldfinch” of movies about kids who are imaginary best friends with Hitler. hurts me how little I liked this. #tiff19
- david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 9, 2019

My #TIFF19 review of the disappointing JOJO RABBIT. https://t.co/W7H8dV7hmj
- Tim Grierson (@TimGrierson) September 9, 2019

JOJO RABBIT: Taika Waititi's proven himself to be remarkably good at portraying weighty themes from the perspective of a child, but I really, really don't think he managed to thread the needle with this one #tiff pic.twitter.com/lfCiuwGcEB
- Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) September 9, 2019
I'm here for Thomasin McKenzie being a breakout supporting actress contender though, she gives me more leverage for a

[squirrels_oh_no]

Sam Rockeell needs to do another movie like Moon because now all i think when i see him is hick racist.

ETA this was a general reply not just to you oops

[stf_ugh]

I mean when are we all going to really have a think about who Sam Rockwell actually is tho lmao surely there’s a limit where it’s like ok but why the fuck are you drawn to so many racist/nazi/white supremacist characters...?

[josiefier]

Yeah I started having that think after I heard about The Best of Enemies. One movie (Three Billboards) was one thing. But to have that right after? And now this? He already has his Oscar so I feel there has to be another reason he's been letting himself get typecast lately. And if it's the reason it might sadly be then RIP Guy Fleegleman.

[crystal_daze]

Here to agree and also to applaud the excellent Galaxy Quest reference.

[jontargaryen]

I didn't realize the Goldfinch reviews were out. And they're bad? I'm shocked.

[surprisesidney]

It's at 46 on Metacritic so far 😬

[just444]

Ansel is getting destroyed

[surprisesidney]

He looked awful in the trailer alone. I don't understand why he keeps being cast in things.

[iznanassi]

i LIVE

[suggestivepeach]

Yeah his acting in the trailer alone was...... meh.

[aristobrit]

Goldfinch reviews are horrific. I was underwhelmed by the trailer so this doesn't surprise me.

[poisoned_summer]

literally the opening two paragraphs from the playlist:

At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, Ansel Elgort cannot really act. In most of his work, that doesn’t matter much; he’s a perfectly adequate Unthreateningly Handsome Teen in something like “Divergent” or “The Fault in Our Stars,” and in “Baby Driver,” he’s basically a puppet in the hands of a stylish director who’s figured out how to manipulate him into something resembling a human being. Alas, that won’t do in “The Goldfinch,” the new adaption of Donna Tartt’s novel from director John Crowley (“Brooklyn”). Elgort is insufferably miscast as the story’s protagonist, Theodore Decker; we’re told he’s a dashing, knowledgeable antique furniture salesman with a dark past and secrets a-plenty, but he looks like a kid in a high school play who borrowed his dad’s glasses and suit in a failed attempt to look like a grown-up

[surprisesidney]

Lmao fuck that Playlist review is harsh but I'm sure he deserves it.

[angriest_girl]

“A Slavic androgynous Bette Davis...”

Never gonna unsee that now.

[miwa201]

LMAO i feel bad for finn for some of the reviews (his performance seems to be getting mixed reviews) but as soon as i heard his accent i knew it wasn't going to do well.