Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw in 'Wuthering Heights.' Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Ahead of the release of Wuthering Heights this week, critics' reviews of the film have finally been released, and they've been decidedly mixed. The Emerald Fennell-directed film, adapted from Emily Brontë's beloved 1847 novel, follows a passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie). As of Monday evening, Wuthering Heights had a score of 71 percent from 65 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and clocked in at 60 percent on Metacritic from 31 reviews. Related Stories Movies 'Wuthering Heights' Review: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Set Hearts and Loins Aquiver in Decidedly Non-Gothic Brontë Adaptation Movies U.K. Production Spend Hits $9B in 2025, Film Investment Sets Record Thanks to 'Wuthering Heights,' Beatles Movies and 'Avengers: Doomsday' The cast also includes Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes, Owen Cooper, Charlotte Mellington, Ewan Mitchell and Amy Morgan. Read on for key excerpts from some of the most prominent reviews from critics in Hollywood, ahead of the film's release in theaters on Feb. 13. The Hollywood Reporter's chief film critic, David Rooney, wrote in his review, "Fennell's overhaul flirts with insanity, and if you can let go of preconceived notions about how this story should be told, it's arguably the writer-director's most purely entertaining film - pulpy, provocative, drenched in blazing color and opulent design, laced with anachronistic flourishes, sexy, pervy, irreverent and resonantly tragic. Often teetering on the verge between silly and clever, it's Wuthering Heights for the Bridgerton generation, guaranteed to moisten tear ducts and inflame young hearts." The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey wrote in part, "With its title stylised in quotation marks, and a director's statement that it's intended to capture her experience of reading the book aged 14, it uses the guise of interpretation to gut one of the most impassioned, emotionally violent novels ever written, and then toss its flayed skin over whatever romance tropes seem most marketable. Adaptation or not, it's an astonishingly hollow work." Alison Willmore, with Vulture, wrote in her review, "Wuthering Heights is an incredibly moist movie, and that's without even taking into account how often the characters get caught in or choose to stride out into the rain (all the better to make their outfits cling). A snail leaves a languid slime trail across a window pane, a housemaid squishes shiny dough provocatively between her fingers while making bread at the kitchen table, a scarred back is shown beaded with sweat in a loving close-up - Emerald Fennell's take on the 1847 Emily Brontë novel practically glistens with fluids." The Guardian's critic, Peter Bradshaw, wrote, "Emerald Fennell cranks up the campery as she reinvents Emily Brontë's tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on the windswept Yorkshire moor as a 20-page fashion shoot of relentless silliness, with bodices ripped to shreds and a saucy slap of BDSM. Margot Robbie's Cathy at one stage secretly heads off to the moor for a hilarious bit of self-pleasuring - although, sadly, there are no audaciously intercut scenes of thirst-trap Heathcliff, played by Jacob Elordi, simultaneously doing the same thing in the stable, while muttering gruffly in that Yerrrrrkshire accent of his." David Sims, with The Atlantic, penned in his review, "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 camera lingers on dripping egg yolks and squishy, bubbling dough; the protagonist, Cathy Earnshaw (played by Margot Robbie), must wade through pig's blood on her way to the moors near her home, leaving a trim of viscera on her gorgeously anachronistic dress. This is Fennell's aesthetic throughout: loudly stylish on top, and just as loudly nasty right below the surface." Kevin Maher, chief film critic for The U.K. Times, wrote, "Who knew Isabella Linton was the best character in Wuthering Heights? She is in this vapid Brontë adaptation, anyway, a film that is enlivened briefly whenever she appears on screen, wickedly played by Alison Oliver. Otherwise, with a chemistry-free central romance between the bizarrely uninteresting Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) and Cathy (Margot Robbie, also the film's producer), this film self-deflates. There are conspicuous longueurs and characterizations that barely reflect the com