The most pressing question about Taika Waitit's Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit is not IF it works (it does), but HOW. Waititi carries much of the film's outrageousness himself as a spectral Adolph Hitler, the ghostly best friend to the film's lead, 10-year-old Jojo (a fine Roman Griffin Davis), a softhearted member of the Hitler Youth, who doesn't understand war, hatred or prejudice but is willing to fake it until he makes it. Jojo's loving mother (Scarlett Johansson) is a member of the resistance and is hiding a Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in crawl spaces. Jojo, on the mend from a youth camp grenade accident, discovers Elsa while recuperating at home and begins the real journey into manhood. Waititi has a keen eye and ear and masterful way with childlike enchantment and heartache. The picture, bold and bracingly funny with its anachronistic soundtrack, is loaded with small moments of emotional eloquence.
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