Veviews are in for Emerald Fennell’s hotly anticipated Wuthering Heights adaptation, and the Saltburn director’s bold take on Emily Brontë’s classic novel has received a mixed response from film reviewers.

Major publications, including The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian, seem to be hugely divided, with the film drawing both one and five-star reviews, while being hailed as both “astonishingly bad” and a “gasp-inducing thrill ride”.

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Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie star in Wuthering Heights

But what are Rotten Tomatoes critics saying about Fennell’s take on the gothic romance?

At the time of writing, Wuthering Heights holds a score of 71 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, meaning the overall response from critics on the review-aggregation website is positive.

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The film has received mixed reviews from critics

One person described the film as “sexy, exhilarating and visually stunning,” while another said the adaptation captures the novel’s emotional scale but lacks “subtlety”.

What have film critics said about the Wuthering Heights?

Wuthering Heights has been met with mixed reviews from critics.

The BBC awarded the film four stars, describing it as an “utterly absorbing” reinvention of the novel, rather than an adaptation. The movie was also met with high praise from The Telegraph, which hailed it as “resplendently lurid, oozy and wild” in its five-star review.

Margot Robbie plays Catherine Earnshaw

However, the film also drew negative attention from critics, with The Times commenting on the “chemistry-free central romance between the bizarrely uninteresting Heathcliff and Cathy,” in its two-star review, while The Guardian also gave the movie two stars, calling it “an emotionally hollow, bodice-ripping misfire”.

The Independent handed out just one star and said Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s “performances are almost pushed to the border of pantomime,” while describing the film as an “astonishingly hollow work”.

What is Wuthering Heights about?

This loose adaptation of Brontë’s iconic novel tells the intoxicating love story of Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) in rural 18th-century Yorkshire.

What begins as an intense childhood bond between orphan Heathcliff and his foster sister Cathy soon develops into an all-consuming, destructive obsession that spans two generations.

Jacob Elordi plays Heathcliff in the new adaptation

The synopsis reads: “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.”

Wuthering Heights is in cinemas from 13 February.