Taika Waititi's 'Klara and the Sun' Lands a Rotten Debut and His Lowest Score Yet

Klara and the Sun is mind-meltingly dreadful

Taika Waititi has clumsily trampled all over Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, akin to having Mr Blobby perform Chopin’s Nocturnes

Klara and the Sun review: Jenna Ortega is an android in upbeat but saccharine sci-fi fable

3/5 stars Taika Waititi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Jojo Rabbit (2019), brings his trademark quirk to Klara and the Sun, a sunny-side-up sci-fi fable that occasionally delivers flashes of darkness. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel of the same name, the film is set in a future where AI companions are the norm. The effervescent Klara (Jenna Ortega) is one such android, albeit a discontinued B1 model now being hawked from a city discoun…

Jenna Ortega & Taika Waititi's New Bestselling Sci-Fi Adaptation Debuts To Rotten Tomatoes Record

Jenna Ortega and Taika Waititi team up for a new adaptation of a bestselling sci-fi novel, which debuts to a shocking Rotten Tomatoes record.

Taika Waititi's 'Klara and the Sun' Lands a Rotten Debut and His Lowest Score Yet

Adapting a beloved novel is always a gamble, and adapting a Nobel Prize winner’s quietly devastating sci-fi book is an even bigger one. That is the challenge Taika Waititi took on with ‘Klara and the Sun’, and the first reviews are now in. Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel follows Klara, a solar-powered Artificial Friend designed to...

What are the early reactions to Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun?

Klara and the Sun Taika Waititi directs Klara and the Sun from a script he co-wrote with David Heyman, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. While the film synopsis barely has any meat on the bone, the description for Ishiguro’s novel provides a decent outline of the story’s events: “From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, a…

Klara and the Sun review – send it back to the factory

Taika Waititi funnies up Kazuo Ishiguro’s beloved 2021 novel about the life of an inquisitive android and dispenses with much of its profundity in the process.  We’ve come to a mystifying juncture in human history, as the rampant onslaught of AI clogs up our news feeds and provides daily threats to all life in existence. Fun, eh? There are many who believe we’re getting close to a five-alarm extinction event if we don’t act now, turn off the big…