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.

Renkl, however, who watched the film on 'the hottest day ever recorded on Earth,' argued that 'Twisters' missed a golden opportunity to address the climate crisis.

'I'm guessing the decision to exclude even a passing reference to climate change in a film about weather disasters has very little to do with cinematic art, or even with climate science, and everything to do with avoiding the cross hairs of political polarity,' she stated in the New York Times article Monday. 

'With movie attendance still far below prepandemic levels, who could blame the makers of 'Twisters' for wanting to protect their film from the right-wing vigilantes targeting wokeness?'