'Wuthering Heights' Reviews: Critics Weigh In on Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi's Adaptation
The reviews are in for Wuthering Heights.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi‘s highly anticipated movie hits theaters on Friday (February 13), directed by Emerald Fennell.
Here’s the logline: “A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.”
The cast also includes Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell.
What are critics saying about the movie so far?
Keep reading to find out what people are saying about the movie…
Wuthering Heights currently has a 70% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Time Out gave it 3 out of 5, writing: “It’s hard to care about such unsympathetic characters, making any moments of intended emotional or erotic impact fall flat… Mainly, it’s the solid supporting cast that glues the film together.”
The Atlantic says: “Wuthering Heights, the writer-director Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s groundbreaking Gothic novel, is her best film to date — a heaving, rip-snortingly carnal good time at the cinema. It is also a gooey, grimy mess.”
The New Yorker says: “These are clever visual conceits, and Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is certainly something to behold. I’m less convinced, for all its frenzied emoting and rain-soaked rutting, that it’s something to feel.”
Variety gave it 3 out of 5, writing: “Literary purists may object, but Fennell seizes on something passionate in the material that was always there but never made explicit, amplifying what has gone largely unrequited all these years.”
The Guardian gives it 2 out of 5, writing: “For Fennell, it looks like a luxurious pose of unserious abandon. It’s quasi-erotic, pseudo-romantic and then ersatz-sad, a club night of mock emotion.”
See all of the looks the cast has worn so far at the movie’s premieres around the world.