Will Jojo Rabbit surprise us come Oscar time? Does the tone of the movie work? How biting is the satire? And most importantly, how many nominations should Jojo Rabbit get from the Academy? We discuss & debate it all in our Oscars Sprint Profile Movie Review.

What is an Oscar Sprint Profile? - 1:12

NONSPOILER SECTION:

Production Profile (Cast/Crew/Specs) - 1:58

Plot Premise/Expectations - 4:56

Production Values:

Sight - 7:49

Sound - 11:31

Performances - 13:35

(Is Taika Waititi The Best At Making Movie About Children? - 19:30)

Script Thoughts - 20:42

(What Is and Isn’t Offensive to One… - 23:41)

(Does This Movie Work Tonally? - 27:43)

Oscars Lens Throughout, And Finishes - 29:12

SPOILER WARNING DANCE PARTY - 33:01

SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW:

Plot Walkthrough - 34:15

Big Question No. 1: Captain K, Good Guy? - 36:15

Bests/Big Question No. 2: Tonal Tightrope - 40:13

(Unfulfilled Expectations? - 43:38)

The Dead Relative Cop Out - 46:03

Lowlights/Comedy Which Missed - 50:32

FINAL GRADES - 53:48

Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 55:58

What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 57:11

Jojo Rabbit is the 20th episode in our Oscars Sprint Profile series of 2019, and it won’t be the last. We love to review all of the major contenders & future nominations, and after Taika Waititi shocked us all at TIFF, we had to give this movie the full OSP treatment.

Do check out our 2019/20 Oscar Sprint Profile playlist in our soundcloud feed for all our these episodes. Dolemite Is My Name, Parasite, Joker, Ad Astra, and Hustlers are our more recent additions to this list. But we’ve been at this list since the beginning of the year with reviews of Apollo 11, Us, Avengers: Endgame, Rocketman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and more. You can also find our Movie Event reviews of other terrific films from this year like Good Boys, Midsommar, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Ready or Not, and then some. In any case, we’ve been all over the film year with our reviews.

And as we always do in this OSP, you get two reviews for the price of one. There’s a non-spoiler section with our impressions of the production values, performances & script, and we build this section up to a guess-timation of how many nominations Jojo Rabbit will get at the Oscars. Then after a spoiler warning dance music interlude, we dive into the major plotlines and discuss all our bests, worsts, and burning questions in the spoiler section.

We ask some burning questions throughout both non-spoilers and spoilers. How many noms will this movie get? Did Waititi find a tonal balance? How do we view the early backlash to this movie? And does it pull off all its lofty ambitions? There’s a ton of good discussion & debate, and as always, we want to know what you think. Please tell us.

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