"It's here, at last, the moment we've been waiting for: Wuthering Heights discourse! Officially released in the UK this Friday, Emerald Fennell's movie adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel features the biggest female star in the world (Margot Robbie), the second-biggest male star (I'm putting Timothee Chalamet ahead of Jacob Elordi, don't fight me), and Fennell's unique writing and directing style that gave us so many memorable moments in Saltburn."
"Still cleaving to the counterintuitive, New York magazine gave the film a thumbs up for being smooth-brained, incredibly moist and Fennell's dumbest movie, which, the writer assured us, also happens to be wah-wah her best to date. The Hollywood Reporter judged it pulpy, provocative, drenched in blazing color and resonantly tragic, while the Atlantic went for a heaving, rip-snortingly carnal good time at the cinema."
"Unsurprisingly, the Brits were less generous than the Americans. The Independent's one-star review called the film an astonishingly hollow work and whimperingly tame, while the Times went for vapid and awful and this newspaper deemed it ersatz and quasi-erotic. I can't judge; I've only seen the trailer, in which Elordi looks like the comic Joe Wilkinson and the movie like bad Baz Luhrmann which is saying something, given how bad the actual Baz Luhrmann is these days."
Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation opened in the UK, starring Margot Robbie, Timothée Chalamet and Jacob Elordi, and reflects Fennell's distinctive Saltburn-era style. U.S. critics offered energetic praise, calling the film pulpy, provocative, vibrant, carnal and, paradoxically, both dumbest and best of Fennell's work. New York magazine and the Atlantic delivered enthusiastic appraisals while The Hollywood Reporter noted tragic resonance amid blazing color. British critics were more dismissive, describing the film as hollow, tame, vapid, ersatz and quasi-erotic. The trailer compares Elordi to comic Joe Wilkinson and evokes Baz Luhrmann excess. Reactions thus vary widely.
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