Taika Waititi has launched a furious broadside at “critics” following the disastrous commercial performance of Klara and the Sun, his new film adapted from a Kazuo Ishiguro novel.

In a post on social media , Waititi wrote: “This Halloween, let’s spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn’t achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus settled, and became critics.”

He added: “The same people who also hated Jojo Rabbit … Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin.”

Pointing to the disparity of the film’s audience and critics’ score on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes , which currently stands at 74% for the former and 26% (from 90 reviews) for the latter, Waititi also wrote: “I haven’t read a review of anything aimed at me or my peers in almost 15 years.…