After Klara and the Sun landed a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, director Taika Waititi went on Instagram and fired back — calling film critics “irrelevant,” “out of touch,” and “obsolete.” And the data is hard to argue with: audiences gave the same film a 78%, a 52-point gap that is one of the largest critic-audience splits of the year. Jon Del Arroz — who already reviewed Klara and the Sun and recommended it — breaks down why Waititi is right, what the collapse of professional film criticism looks like in 2026, and why the audience score is the only score that actually matters anymore.
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