‘Klara and the Sun’ Review: There’s No Life — Intelligent, Artificial or Otherwise — in Taika Waititi’s Calamitous Android Fantasy

Director Taika Waititi has adapted Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel 'Klara and the Sun' into a film focusing on an android fantasy. Critics have delivered overwhelmingly negative assessments of the project, with particular criticism directed at its tone and execution.

Reviewers characterized the film as a calamitous failure devoid of life, noting that Waititi attempted to adapt a complex and questioning novel through a comedic, child's-eye lens. This approach draws direct comparisons to his previous work on 'Jojo Rabbit,' which was similarly described by critics as a crass and mawkish anti-hate satire.