Taika Waititi Adapted a Strange and Beautiful Novel. The Result Is Shaping Up to Be a Legendary Bomb.
The Jojo Rabbit director blamed the dismal numbers for his film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel on ‘obsolete’ reviewers’ notices, adding that he works ‘for the people’ – whose Rotten Tomatoes ratings are much higher
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- ‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster.
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How ‘Klara and the Sun’ Got Blotted Out at the Box Office
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