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FilmPG-132026
Klara and the Sun
Directed by Taika Waititi
When Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home, meets Josie, each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother and they've suffered great loss, but Klara's innocent wonder and unwavering loyalty begin to heal the family and bring light to Josie's complicated world. From TMDB
282 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Mastodon * | 5 | 1 | 32 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Klara and the Sun is a 2026 science fiction drama film, directed by Taika Waititi, starring Jenna Ortega, Mia Tharia and Amy Adams.
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- posts span Feb 1, 2024 to Nov 5, 2026
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In the United States and Canada, Klara and the Sun was released alongside Clayface, Wildwood, Wicker, and Ali G: Who Iz I?, and was projected to gross around $2 million from 850 theatres in its opening weekend. The film was initially slated for a wide 2,000+ theater release, but was scaled back following poor early critical reception. The film ended up debuting to just $701,059. Reaction to Klara and the Sun among critics following its premiere showing was largely negative. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 24% of 79 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Flattening the nuanced ideas of its acclaimed source material…
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60 of 282 · most liked firstApparently a not-very-good movie of Klara and the Sun has come out, but please don’t let that ruin the book because it’s wonderful and by one of my favorite authors! Kazuo Ishiguro is fantastic and Never Let Me Go may be my favorite book of all time 🙏✨
neutral · AI labelView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/8FVgb Even i looked at this and thought, "What an odd collection of films." This weekend: Klara and the Sun, Clayface, Wicker, Wildwood, and the Substance (for movie night).
neutral · AI labelView post →“'Klara and the Sun' is an odd little film, but I was completely charmed by it ... I walked away feeling a little lighter and happier, which is no small accomplishment for a movie about death, grief, and a robot trying to understand the human heart." screenzealots.com/2026/10/22/k...
positive · AI labelView post →Taika Waititi Defends ‘Klara and the Sun,’ Says He Hasn’t ‘Read a Review’ in 15 Years and Slams Critics as ‘Irrelevant,’ ‘Out of Touch’ and ‘Obsolete’.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of “Klara and the Sun” does a beautiful job of describing why it’s good for adapters to make a story their own for a film instead of trying to copy something line-for-line. *coughcough future critics of Klara film*
neutral · AI labelView post →"Every year, some movies get lost in the shuffle. Don’t sleep on this one. A gem of a movie, it’s a meditation on belief, grief, and the power of love. Possibly Taika Waititi’s most emotional movie yet." #KlaraAndTheSun riot-us.com/2026/10/20/k...
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember how nuts last weekend's movie roster was? This weekend brings us WILDWOOD, CLAYFACE, WICKER, A TALENT FOR MURDER, and KLARA AND THE SUN. Still playing: YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, STREET FIGHTER, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER, WHALEFALL, FORGOTTEN ISLAND, even a few DEVILS screens. Wow.
neutral · AI labelView post →Free on Xfinity Rewards: www.xfinity.com/membership -$10 Dunkin gift card -Free HD Digital of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice -$10 off movie ticket for Klara and the Sun
neutral · AI labelView post →"Klara and the Sun" cancels theatrical release in Spain amid negative reviews and disappointing box office in the US.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of the novel “Klara and the Sun,” which has recently been adapted into a movie. The story is set in the future and is narrated by Klara, a robotic “Artificial Friend,” whose job is to be a companion to a sick teenage girl.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mini, spoiler free review of *Klara and the Sun*, by Kazuo Ishiguro. In an unspecified but not too distant future, classrooms give way to individual instruction on mobile devices and children are more isolated. “Artificial Friends” (AFs) - androids designed as companions - become more popular to help reduce their loneliness. Klara is an AF, bought for a very sick young girl. Though Klara is especially clever and observant, her knowledge of how the world works is very limited. This is a…
neutral · AI labelView post →Taika Waititi has branded critics “sad lost souls” after ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’ became his lowest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes. He also called critics “irrelevant, out of touch, obsolete” and said they belong “in the bin.” #KlaraAndTheSun #TaikaWaititi
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Klara and The Sun last night. A sweet story with tons of great moments, fun swooping perspectives, and laughter sprinkled throughout. As a photographer and lover of light, the sun flares can have my whole dang heart. Wanting to stay in the movie world a little longer,
positive · AI labelView post →Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒 一雄). A portrait I took this time last year. When asked by Vanity Fair about the film adaptation of Klara and the Sun he described his own book as “bleak.” For the film he wanted something different: He sought out Waititi’s “kind of wacky, bordering on surreal humour." 🧵 🎥 ✍️🌅
neutral · AI labelView post →There were some fairly goofy looks on the red carpet at the BFI London Film Festival premiere of KLARA AND THE SUN tomandlorenzo.com/2026/10/bfi-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Thank you, Hugh Verheylewegen! I love how you love the Klara and the Sun film and all the people involved…
neutral · AI labelView post →Mini, spoiler free review of *Klara and the Sun*, by Kazuo Ishiguro. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/71957771 > In an unspecified but not too distant future, classrooms give way to individual instruction on mobile devices and children are more isolated. “Artificial Friends” (AFs) - androids designed as companions - become more popular to help reduce their loneliness. Klara is an AF, bought for a very sick young girl. Though Klara is especially clever and observant, her knowledge of…
neutral · AI labelView post →How ‘Klara And The Sun’ Got Blotted Out At the Box Office.
neutral · AI labelView post →Style File: KLARA AND THE SUN star Jenna Ortega wore a very cute mini and a strangely beautiful Cavalli gown to the Rome Film Festival tomandlorenzo.com/2026/10/rome...
neutral · AI labelView post →Complete side note but I actually do want to see Klara and the Sun, as I have enjoyed all of Taika Waititi's movies so far even his poorly regarded ones. But the damn movie ain't playing near me, frustratingly enough. 😂 Ah well. I'll catch it when it hits streaming one way or another.
positive · AI labelView post →Must admit, I found the novel Klara and The Sun rather meh, so not shocked the film is similarly so.
negative · AI labelView post →Klara and the Sun was such beautiful movie, both literally and figuratively 💛 It had an excellent balance of light and dark moments that had me laughing and tearing up. I loved it! 💜
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Klara and the Sun, the new Taika Waititi film. Brilliant stuff, well worth a watch!
positive · AI labelView post →Unlike, it seems, every film critic, I rather enjoyed Klara and the Sun. Not Ishiguro’s tone at all, and certainly prone to drive some people mad, but perhaps I was in a sentimental mood
positive · AI labelView post →Klara and the Sun review – Taika Waititi’s manic pixie dream robot sci-fi is a sentimental mess.
neutral · AI labelView post →I legitimately can't remember the last time I saw a movie in the theater, I'm very much a wait for streaming person. But I just bought opening night tickets for You Can See Everything and Klara and the Sun. So kudos to Nathan Fielder and Taika Waititi for overpowering my hermit ways
positive · AI labelView post →A nice write up disputing the critics' takes on Klara and the Sun. Interesting that she's never seen another Taika film and so didn't go in with any bias aside from being a fan of the book www.purewow.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →Klara and the Sun (With Taika Waititi & Mike Berlucchi Q&A) - The Park Theatre [3440 Cambie St. Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2W8]: www.theparktheatre.ca/movie/klara-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Still reading some of what I was reading last week. But also started Lords of Uncreation, third in series by Tchaikovsky. Also started Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, I believe the film adaptation has just released. #booksky 💙📚
neutral · AI labelView post →I've just come out of Klara and the Sun. It was a brilliant film, beautifully made with stunning performances, cinematography, design (Ra Vincent did production design), music, everything. Which is why this was a travesty. Go and see it, it's wonderful ❤️
positive · AI labelView post →Taika Waititi has delivered some bad news for Star Wars fans while promoting his new film Klara and the Sun.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just over 2 weeks until Klara And The Sun hits theatres. When is Taika going to start doing press for the movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →For episode 52 of Chasing Amy Adams, film critic @katiewalshstx.bsky.social joins us to talk about the 2026 sci-fi drama Klara and the Sun. Curse Taika Waititi’s name with us on 11/4!
neutral · AI labelView post →KLARA AND THE SUN reminds me why, even though every movie manipulates our emotions, we reserve the expression "emotionally manipulative" for the ones that are too clumsy to get away with it. My review of Taika Waititi's latest misfire is at @thewrap.com.
negative · AI labelView post →I haven’t even seen the film and I’ll never forgive the people who let Taika Waititi direct Klara and the Sun
neutral · AI labelView post →Taika Waititi and Jenna Ortega at the Rome Film Festival premiere of "Klara and the Sun” via extratv:
neutral · AI labelView post →Florence Pugh, Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega reunite at the London Film Festival premiere of ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’. #KlaraAndTheSun #FlorencePugh #AmyAdams #JennaOrtega
neutral · AI labelView post →I get nervous and protective when a beloved book is made into a movie. What if people hate it? What if it doesn’t translate well to screen? (I am doubtful). Anyway, please read Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. And maybe watch the movie in October, but only in that order. #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →What I don't get about the hate for Klara and the Sun is that the author was involved with the movie. Basically you're hating on Kazuo Ishiguro who has said he supports this interpretation of the story and was an executive producer.
positive · AI labelView post →2/2 Klara and the Sun (With Taika Waititi & Mike Berlucchi Q&A) - The Park Theatre [3440 Cambie St. Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2W8]:
neutral · AI labelView post →apparently, that AI friend movie (Klara and the Sun) is two packs of ass
negative · AI labelView post →Going to my first ever Mystery Screening tonight. Very excited until I realised there's a chance it will be the Ali G movie. (Hoping it will be Klara and the Sun)
neutral · AI labelView post →New book review! I reread Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and The Sun ahead of the movie. It's a gentler book than I remembered. Whimsical, even, in some ways. But I do get why it seems so polarising. #BookSky medium.com/@lawardornd/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I dunno Taika I may be a film critic but I personally take comfort in the fact that I didn't make Klara and the Sun Ugh! What a horrifying fate that must be
negative · AI labelView post →Is Klara and the Sun as bad as reviews are saying; or is this a reviewer hates, audience will probably like and grow, in fifteen years it will be cult, situation?
neutral · AI labelView post →A fashion look at the gowns of the Klara and the Sun red carpet premiere! youtube.com/shorts/piyQm...
neutral · AI labelView post →A lot of Buscemi coming to screens soon, with Wild Horse Nine, the Pickpocket movie, & Klara and the Sun
neutral · AI labelView post →Friends, I’m almost finished Klara and the Sun and I’m not getting the hype? It’s like if iRobot and the matrix and Gatica and a.i (the movie) had a book baby? I dunno, maybe it will all come together in the next 20% and I will eat my words.
negative · AI labelView post →Ok break from politics posting for a second, but I have no idea what the Hell movie the critics watched, Klara and the Sun is wonderful
positive · AI labelView post →In the theater for Klara and the Sun, it was supposed to start 2 minutes ago, and I'm LITERALLY the only one here. I hate this for Taika and everyone else who worked on the movie, but I love this for me. This is actually the first time I've seen a movie in a regular (non-arty) theater in 7 years.
positive · AI labelView post →My review of Klara And The Sun (dir. Taika Waititi) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
neutral · AI labelView post →Taika Waititi’s ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’ debuts with a 20% score on Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 The lowest-rated film of his career. #KlaraAndTheSun #TaikaWaititi
neutral · AI labelView post →Dang, man, Klara and the Sun is getting dreadful reviews after its London world premiere. That really bums me out. I've been totally enchanted by the trailer (which is why as a general rule I don't trust trailers).😢 We're talking 1/5 from major U.K. critics. #filmsky 📽️ variety.com/2026/film/fe...
negative · AI labelView post →It's also Klara and the Sun! I had to reschedule Sense and Sensibility today for unexpected vet trip but it's a great movie month!
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and was indifferent to Klara and the Sun. #KazuoIshiguro #booksky #bookreview #books #classicbooks kevinklehr.com/2026/03/01/b...
negative · AI labelView post →ICYMI: We returned to Chasing Amy Adams this week and mustered all the millennial optimism we could spare to discuss Klara and the Sun with our good friend @katiewalshstx.bsky.social. The conversation, as always, is delightful. The film itself? Well… 😬 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
neutral · AI labelView post →Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun is in cinemas, with Jenna Ortega as Klara and Amy Adams as Josie's mother. What changes from Kazuo Ishiguro's novel: #booksky #bookstoscreen
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately I didn’t love the “Klara and the Sun” movie, but I hope people who watch it will give the book a chance, because Kazuo Ishiguro is awesome 🥺
negative · AI labelView post →Looks like I'll be the only one giving Jenna Ortega Skandies points for KLARA AND THE SUN. I'm glad I saw it with no attachment to the source material, an awareness of savage reviews, and knowing it plays better as a YA-level summer film instead of as "weighty literary adaptation"/Oscar bait.
neutral · AI labelView post →_Klara and the Sun_ by Kazuo Ishiguro. Wasn't my initial planned read after previous book, however, I realized the movie is coming out this week. It's my first novel by him, I've been blown away as it's so lovely and poignant with a dash of cheekiness in regards to the human experience. So happy I started it, as I'm enjoying it more since my last two reads were disappointments. On the non-fiction side, I'm reading _Designing for the Digital Age_ by Kim Goodwin. Another title I've discovered…
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