Wuthering Heights

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* trades Brontë's psychological depth for sweat, pig blood, and anachronistic couture. Robbie and Elordi look stunning; their characters feel hollow.

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* looks great but whitewashes Heathcliff while casting people of color as the villains—inverting the novel's entire racial critique.

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* is hollow and posh — but the critic admits he liked it anyway, class guilt and all.

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* ditches class and race for sex and shock. Purists rage, but packed cinemas prove the approach works for the BookTok generation.

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* is bold in style but hollow at its core — Robbie and Elordi sizzle apart, but the film chickens out when it counts.

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* is a Gothic fever dream — not Brontë faithful, but visually stunning and emotionally savage. Surrender to its logic or get left behind.

Emerald Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* split The Independent's critics down the middle — gorgeous aesthetics and Charli xcx vs. hollow adaptation with dodgy acting.

Fennell and cinematographer Sandgren reveal how they built a visceral, boundary-dissolving visual language for their *Wuthering Heights* adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Emerald Fennell explains why her *Wuthering Heights* adaptation makes bold departures from Brontë's novel — and why she stands behind every controversial choice.

Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* drops the novel's second half by design, focusing on Cathy and Heathcliff's core love story rather than its multigenerational fallout.