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SILENT NIGHT (TIFF2021) – Review by Leslie Combemale

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 Leslie Combemale Camille Griffin, Keira Knightley, matthew goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Silent Night, toronto international film festival

Can you remember the first time you really knew you were going to die? You know, when you learned that every human and living being on the planet has an expiration date, including you? What if that date was Christmas, and everyone else was going to die, too? That’s the premise for writer/director Camille Griffin’s film Silent Night. The film is terrifying and as dark as a starless sky, not because of the premise itself, but because of how the story unfolds. Absolutely not for children, and not even for adults who avoid movies with children in peril, this is decidedly not a Christmas movie.

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JO JO RABBIT – Review by Susan Granger

November 13, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments hitler, jo jo rabbit, Roman Griffin Davis, satire, scarlett johansson, taika watiti

Director Taika Waititi’s approach to ridiculing Hitler is unique. Set in the fictional town of Falkenheim in Germany during the closing months of W.W.II, he focuses on plucky 10 year-old Johannes Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis), who is “massively into swastikas” and besotted with his imaginary friend, buffoonish Adolf Hitler (Waititi).

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JOJO RABBIT – Review by Brandy McDonnell

November 8, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments jojo rabbit, Roman Griffin Davis, sam rockwell, scarlett johansson, Taika Waititi, thomasin mckenzie

Set in Germany during the waning days of WWII, the New Zealand filmmaker’s adaptation of Christine Leunen’s novel “Caging Skies” follows 10-year-old Jojo (wonderful newcomer Roman Griffin Davis), a new Hitler Youth recruit who so fancies himself a Nazi zealot that his imaginary friend is a clownish version of Adolf Hitler (Waititi, brilliantly eccentric).