‘Next Goal Wins’: At Least Taika Waititi’s Latest Misfire Doesn’t Have Lovable Hitler

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The filmmaker’s latest, the supposedly heartwarming sports flick “Next Goal Wins,” is as misguided and tonally off as 2019’s “Jojo Rabbit”—though it spares us at least one thing.

Michael Fassbender in the new Taika Waititi film Next Goal Wins.
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