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Wuthering Heights has torn the Independent’s culture desk apart

OFFICE POLITICS: Are you currently distrusting your friends and loved ones due to their feelings about Emerald Fennell’s garish bodice-ripper? Then you are not alone! Here at ‘The Independent’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ has left us more divided than ever. So, in the interest of healing, we asked eight of our writers…

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong

By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights Earned Back Its $113M Budget In 48 Hours & That’s On Horniness

Critics, be damned, I guess!

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Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online

Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights takes £56m over opening weekend – as Emerald Fennell’s film continues to divide critics

Literary adaptation is currently the highest grossing new release of 2026

The Independent UK

Unpacking Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: the best podcasts of the week

As Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation hits the screens, the historian Dominic Sandbrook takes a deep-dive into the novel’s dark themes. Plus, how to battle phone addiction

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights rakes in $77m at global box office on opening weekend

Emerald Fennell’s divisive film is the year’s biggest opening so far, having recouped its entire estimated production budget over the opening weekend

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‘Consider Yourself Warned.’ Anne Hathaway’s Response To Seeing Wuthering Heights Is Going Viral

Anne Hathaway has entered the chat.

Cinemablend

From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Emerald Fennell’s film brings the raunch to Brontë’s romance, while Nintendo’s beloved plumber stars in a colourful, family-friendly sports game

The Guardian - UK

3 new to Paramount+ movies you need to stream this weekend (Feb. 13-15)

Paramount+ just added a ton of must-watch movies worth watching this weekend. Here's my top 3 picks.

Tom’s Guide

Wuthering Heights director defends significant changes made in adaptation of beloved classic

Emerald Fennell’s period drama stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Catherine

The Independent UK

Don’t fall in love this Valentine’s Day – read Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is back in the news and racing up the bestseller lists, thanks to a new film version by the provocative director Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The film is marketing Wuthering Heights as “the world’s greatest love story”.

The Conversation

‘I loved it!’: Brontë museum staff praise racy Wuthering Heights film

Staff at Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth embrace Emerald Fennell’s sex-laced take, while Emily Brontë’s most recent biographer calls BDSM version ‘a lot of fun’

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights Is a Kinky, Revisionist Fever Dream

A problematic hyperpop romance that collides with the manosphere

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Total Film

Ignore its disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score, Emerald Fennell's controversial Wuthering Heights works because it's like a half-remembered dream

Big Screen Spotlight | Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" is the novel as a hazy memory

The Independent UK

Music Review: A post-'Brat' Charli xcx broods on the 'Wuthering Heights' soundtrack

Charli xcx's first release post-"Brat” summer is a brooding soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” and it aims to stand on its own

The Conversation

Is this love? Don’t be Heathcliff and Cathy – what you should watch, read and play this week

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a loose (very loose) adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The film is, as the director has attested, the intense, “unhinged”, gothic story she remembers reading as a 14-year-old. As such, it is full of imagined passages and heightened romance and violence. It’s truly Fennellian in…

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Charli xcx review, Wuthering Heights – A spectacular, phantasmagorical fever dream

5/5 On her wild, gothic soundtrack album, the pop star proves herself much more in tune with the terrible complexity of Emily Brontë’s original vision than film director Emerald Fennell

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Euronews

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: “Wuthering Heights”: A horny and vapid take on Brontë's classic

Director Emerald Fennell guts one of the most emotionally violent novels ever written for a surface-level flirtation with corset kink that's as vapid as it is bafflingly tame.

The Guardian - UK

Tell us: has the new Wuthering Heights film adaptation inspired you to read Emily Brontë’s novel?

We want to hear people’s thoughts on reading the novel ahead of the new adaptation – and if you’ve watched the film how does it compare?

Cinemablend

Will Wuthering Heights Soar Or Wither On The Vine? What Critics Are Saying About The Margot Robbie And Jacob Elordi Adaptation

In theaters in time for Valentine's Day.

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights set to ravish Valentine’s weekend box office

Early projections suggest Emerald Fennell’s adaptation could recoup its $80m production budget in its opening three days – with strong US and overseas takings expected

Marie Claire

An Unbelievably Unique Wuthering Heights Airbnb Now Exists – and You Can Stay There for Free

Pack your bags, the moors are calling

The Independent UK

Aimee Lou Wood lends her voice to audiobook of Wuthering Heights – here’s where to listen

Revisit Emily Brontë’s classic in audio form ahead of the movie’s release

Marie Claire

How Different Is Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Compared to Emily Brontë’s Book?

The director made it clear it's far from an exact retelling

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