3 critics on Klara and the Sun: 3 negative. Every verdict quoted, with ratings and links to the full reviews.
3 critics have reviewed Klara and the Sun so far. By our reading of each review, 3 negative. Below, every critic's verdict in their own words, with the rating where they gave one and a link to the full review.
Critics at a glance
TheWrap
"The underlying emotional and practical truths within “Klara and the Sun” are bypassed in favor of cloying, overblown melodrama, and because the film ignores its own reality, including the sad stuff, it can’t make us cry"
Also: "No one can say Jenna Ortega isn’t a team player, since she throws herself into the body of this curious robot, with arch, calculated movements that are simultaneously humorous and, within the world of “Klara and the Sun,” logical"
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IndieWire
"Leave your brain at the door, lest you want your IQ pulverized, if you see Taika Waititi’s confoundingly awful, relentlessly twee Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation, “Klara and the Sun"
Also: "his clumsy, winky, affected, and self-undercutting direction can’t even work the charming Jenna Ortega to a great performance, as her Klara is flattened into a bundle of manic pixie mannerisms both physical and verbal"
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The Hollywood Reporter
"Led by a misused Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, Taika Waititi’s clanging dud has the distinction of being indisputably the worst screen adaptation of a novel by Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro"
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Updated 23 October 2026. CutMirchi does not review films itself: this page gathers published critics' reviews, quoted word for word and linked, and is updated as more arrive. "Verdict" is our one-word reading of each review; ratings are as each outlet printed them.
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