"Emerald Fennell's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights reimagines Emily Brontë's classic novel as a big-budget bodice ripper. It stars Jacob Elordi as the lascivious, brutish Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as an improbably blonde, manifestly too-old Cathy Earnshaw. Among other attractions, it features public hanging, dollhouse murder, puppy play, and vast quantities of tactile goop as a stand-in for the unspeakable. There are enough overtones of horny menace to pass for "erotic" among a viewing public in the midst of a sex drought."
"The film is both overlong and overwrought and is neither as brilliant nor as terrible as critics and Letterboxd reviewers make it out to be. It has to be one of the most middling movies to stoke a media super-cycle, which has had the unfortunate effect of overshadowing the best thing it has going for it: a new companion album by Charli XCX."
"Here she is once again at the center of pop culture, working at the peak of her abilities to renovate her sound for the largest audience possible. By trading strobe-lit arenas for wild and windy moors, the singer meets the challenge of transplanting her music into a new landscape. Wuthering Heights is both a reinvention and familiar offering from the singer: underlining her adventurousness as a musician and the strengths (and limits) of her songwriting."
Emerald Fennell's adaptation recasts Wuthering Heights as an extravagant, erotic bodice-ripper starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, loaded with grotesque set pieces and overt sexual menace. The movie leans into sensational imagery—public hanging, dollhouse murder, puppy play, and copious tactile goop—while feeling overlong, overwrought, and ultimately middling despite fueling a media super-cycle. That publicity surge has eclipsed a companion album by Charli XCX. Charli uses the project as a reset, transplanting her pop sound from strobe-lit arenas to wild moors and showcasing adventurous production alongside the evident strengths and limits of her songwriting.
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