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Leave your brain at the door. While Ishiguro transports you through crisp, powerful prose in his celebrated dystopian fable, Waititi, by contrast, hits you with relentless whimsy and crushing sentimentality—in what feels like an inadvertent bid to get himself permanently blacklisted from the film industry. Leave your brain at the door—unless you want your IQ pulverized—should you choose to watch Taika Waititi’s bafflingly disastrous and cloying adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s *Klara and the Sun*. Starring Jenna Ortega as Klara—an "Artificial Friend" (AF) powered by solar energy who begins to develop human emotions through her overexposure to generic, profoundly foolish human feelings—the film shapes up to be this year’s equivalent of *A Big Bold Beautiful Journey*: another failure backed by a renowned director that, quite unintentionally, brings him closer to being blacklisted by the industry. Director: Taika Waititi Writers: Taika Waititi, Dahvi Waller, Kazuo Ishiguro Stars: ...