FILMS AT THE NUGGET PRESENTS ‘JOJO RABBIT’ (2019):  Fri, Nov. 15 – Thurs, Nov. 21, nightly

Rated PG-13. 108 minutes. Tickets are $10. 

Fri & Sat - 5:30pm & 8pm/Mon through Wed - 7pm/Thurs - 8:30pm

Playing at the Nugget Theater all week is the critically acclaimed, JoJo Rabbit, from writer-director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople). “A sprightly, attractively composed coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany,” wrote The Washington Post, “A satire in which a buffoonish Adolf Hitler delivers some of the funniest moments; a wrenchingly tender portrait of a mother’s love for her son; a lampoon of the most destructive ideological forces that still threaten society and — perhaps most powerfully — an improbably affecting chronicle of moral evolution. Refracted through the childlike perspective of its alternately sweet and appalling 10-year-old protagonist.” 

“As played by writer-director Taika Waititi, this imaginary Führer is a nice guy — which makes sense, as he's a figment of the imagination of a nice 10-year-old,” wrote NPR, “(Waititi’s) comic idea is much like Chaplin's: to deconstruct fascist thinking. He makes little Jojo a propaganda-fed child so innocent that he's never learned to tie his shoes, then helps him to puzzle out the dense network of lies that surrounds him.” Also with Scarlett Johansson (TFF #46) and Sam Rockwell.