Perhaps the year’s best movie …

… Review: 'Jojo Rabbit'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… when I tell you that Waititi actually uses whimsy as a storytelling tool in Jojo Rabbit to confound our expectations as his film offers a deepening portrait of a naïve child in a small town in Nazi Germany becoming aware of the inhuman monstrousness of his everyday world, you can trust me when I say I was gobsmacked. After half a century of moviegoing, I'm almost never surprised at the cinema, but Jojo Rabbit surprised me, amused me, touched me, devastated me.