'Slaughter Nick for President' a human rights win

The approach of Easter had me in a kind of contemplative mood, so I finally got around to seeing a documentary I'd first heard about when it debuted in 2012, but which, for whatever reasons, I simply never managed to watch at the time, until I found it on Amazon Prime Video.

It's a story for the ages, as an oppressive despot wages war in Eastern Europe, and a decidedly unserious actor suddenly becomes the unlikely voice of an opposition movement fighting for freedom.

While it has parallels to comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelenskyy becoming the Winston Churchill of Ukraine in the face of...