The morning after “Jojo Rabbit” made its world premiere in Toronto, Taika Waititi, the 44-year-old New Zealand actor-writer-director, was understandably confused.
His movie played through the roof with audiences who cheered his lighthearted but serious fable about a lonely young Nazi enthusiast (Roman Griffin Davis) and his imaginary friend Hitler (Waititi), who finds himself fighting for dominance with a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) hidden by his activist mother (Scarlett Johansson) behind a wall in his house.But the day after its debut the film was hovering around 50 on Metacritic.
That’s why figuring out the Oscar potential for this movie is dicey.
You don’t have to have critical acclaim to win an Oscar.
Look at “Bohemian Rhapsody” last year (Metacritic: 49).
But that was a worldwide $893 million blockbuster based on the enormous appeal of Queen and Freddie Mercury.
The Oscar win went to Rami Malek.While “Jojo Rabbit” may play well to Academy voters,
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