'Jojo Rabbit'

A round of applause, please, for filmmaker Taika Waititi, for the courage he employs in his biting Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit.” Not for making a comedy about Adolf Hitler but for daring, in an age when a president calls modern neo-Nazis “very fine people,” to remind us of the evil Hitler embodied.

Little Johannes Betzler, played winningly by newcomer Roman Griffin Davis, is eager to show the world how devoted he is to Der Fuehrer. As a new member of the Hitler Youth, 10-year-old Johannes, nicknamed Jojo, jumps into the knife drills set forth by his summer camp’s commander, the freakishly irresponsible Capt. Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell). But Jojo loses his nerve when the teen campers order him to kill a rabbit, so the kids taunt him with a new name: Jojo Rabbit.

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