Klara and the Sun (2026)

"Klara" (Jenny Ortega) is the last in a long line of increasingly redundant personal robots whose hopes of being sold are dwindling by the days that she spends in the window of their shop with her colleagues. Then, out of the blue, she espies "Josie" (Mia Tharia) who is out shopping with her mother (Amy Adams) for that very thing. Shunning the more advanced models, she convinces "Chrissy" to buy her the older version and next thing "Klara" is ensconced in their substantial but remote home. Their housekeeper "Melania" (Rachel House) doesn't exactly…

Check out my full review @ Rating: B- KLARA AND THE SUN is a warm, gentle drama that I quite enjoyed. Jenna Ortega carries it with one of my favorite performances of hers: expressive, funny, and much more complete than she’ll get credit for. Taika Waititi keeps his humor under control, and those light, kindly comedic bits suit Kazuo Ishiguro’s story. The isolated farm, the sunlight, and Klara’s pixelated point of view give it an imaginative, almost fantasy-like feel,