On paper, Klara and the Sun has everything it needs to be a box-office smash. From its basis in Kazuo Ishiguro's critically acclaimed novel to its Hollywood cast ( Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams ), plus themes of technology taking over our world, power imbalances, and grief poisoning the mind, it almost feels like nothing can go wrong. However, critics have torn Taika Waititi's film apart, with the Rotten Tomatoes score a low 27% at the time of publication.

The film follows an outdated android model named Klara (Ortega), who is befriended and purchased by a sick teenager, Josie (Mia Tharia). It's a dystopian world where people can use genetic engineering to advance in society, causing an extreme class divide.

Below, entertainment writers Lachlan Guertin and Rachel Choy pick apart what they loved about the film, what was missing, and whether Klara and the Sun is worth seeing in the cinema .…