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A New York Times columnist has slammed the producers of the blockbuster hit 'Twisters' for not including a climate change plot - after the film's anti-woke storyline was credited for huge box office takings. 

Margaret Renkl called out director Lee Isaac Chung in a scathing opinion piece published Monday, criticizing his decision to omit any reference to global warming in the film's plot- after he said he doesn't believe films are meant to be 'message-oriented.' 

The movie, a long-awaited sequel to the 1996 hit 'Twister', stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones as storm chasers battling extreme weather. It's been tearing up the box office, with many crediting its success to an approach that avoids political messaging.

In her review, the columnist reflects on the dissonance between the film's dramatic portrayal of increasingly violent tornadoes and its complete silence on the broader implications of climate change.

She argued: 'Artifacts of popular culture have always had immense power to articulate changing attitudes, engage empathy and open firmly resistant mind.

'With MAGA politicians at every level denying that climate change even exists, real climate legislation is now nearly impossible to pass,' she continued. 'And with the Supreme Court determined to quash all executive-branch efforts to address the changing climate, too, we seem to be at the mercy of artists to save us.'

And this naive filmmaker doesn’t get it, yet.

Earlier this month, Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has opened up on why the blockbuster doesn't address climate change or global warming.

Chung told CNN: 'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don't ever feel like it is putting forward any message.

'I just don't feel like films are meant to be message-oriented, I think what we are doing is showing the reality of what's happening on the ground … we don't shy away from saying that things are changing.

'I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we're preaching a message, because that's certainly not what I think cinema should be about. I think it should be a reflection of the world.'