Taika Waititi Calls Klara Critics ‘Obsolete’ — SkimNews
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- Taika Waititi touted “Klara and the Sun’s” 78% Rotten Tomatoes audience score—now 73%—while attacking the negative reviews contributing to its 26% critics rating.
- Taika Waititi said he has not read a review aimed at him or his peers in almost 15 years, while adding that he “does listen to the people”; he then called critics “sad lost souls,” “irrelevant,” “out of touch,” “obsolete,” and “in the bin.”
- Damon White wrote in Deadline that Taika Waititi appeared suited to Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian 2021 novel, but said “Klara just doesn’t deliver on any of the fronts it promises.”
- Klara and the Sun carried a reported $20 million budget and opened last weekend with $701,000 domestically.
- Sony Pictures cut the film’s U.S. wide release to 880 theaters following negative BFI reviews earlier this month.
- Klara and the Sun adapts Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 dystopian novel and stars Jenna Ortega as an “Artificial Friend” purchased for the gravely ill teenager Josie, played by Mia Tharia.
Why it matters: For Sony Pictures, the film’s U.S. rollout fell to 880 theaters after negative BFI reviews, a concrete narrowing of distribution. Its reported $20 million budget and $701,000 domestic opening add the commercial stakes, while Taika Waititi’s response keeps critics—not the shrinking theater footprint—at the center of the coverage.
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