AI meets YA head-on in the curiously flat comedy-drama Klara and the Sun, which almost perfectly illustrates how ill-prepared we are for the technological revolution that’s coming to us. In theory, Taiki Waititi should be a snug-as-a-bug fit for Kazuo Ishiguru’s dystopian — or is it? — 2021 novel, given the director’s affinity for a very particular and peculiar kind of reality-based cringe comedy, but Klara just doesn’t deliver on any of the fronts it promises. Instead, we’re faced with a sporadically funny meditation on life and premature death that, like Mark Romanek’s gloomy attempt at Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never
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