JOJO RABBIT: CUTE, CLOYING, CONFUSED
I went into a screening of Taiki Waititi's Jojo Rabbit uncertain what to expect. This tale of an 11-year-old German boy talking to imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, turning a blind eye to Nazi atrocities such as hangings in a public square and swallowing sweetened Third Reich dogma sounded a little hard to take, especially for this American of Jewish descent. However, I've been a fan of Waititi's other coming-of-age stories, from his little-seen Boy in 2010 and his humane and ad