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‘Wuthering Heights’ is officially here and Letterboxd has some thoughts

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Few films in recent memory have arrived with quite the same fever pitch as Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. Ever since it was announced that Australian heavyweights (and Queensland locals) Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi would step into the yearning-filled roles of Cathy and Heathcliff, our brains have been been circling the moors, so to speak. Fennell, whose past work thrives on mess and twists, taking on Emily Brontë’s gothic love story was always going to provoke strong feelings. And when Robbie herself said that her girlfriends were "frothing at the mouth" at a private screening of the film, our appetites were well and truly whet.

But now that the 2026 adaptation has finally landed, the conversation has moved to its natural home: Letterboxd. On the film logging platform where five-star raves coinicide half-star takedowns, viewers have wasted no time in delivering their verdicts. Some hail the film as a bold reinvention of a classic, praising Fennell’s knack for intensifying the emotional stakes, helped along by Charli XCX's dedicated sountrack, and Robbie and Elordi’s magnetic chemistry. Others, however, argue that the director’s signature modern twists occasionally clash with Brontë’s original gothic tone, leaving key moments from the book untold, and certain sequences feeling more performative than haunted.

So, how has Letterboxd received Wuthering Heights? The best and most out there reviews for your perusal, below.

 

Want to see what the internet thought of more major film moments? Here's what Letterboxd had to say about A24's Materialists, and Luca Guadagnino's Queer. We've also rounded up every adaptation heading to screen in 2026, so you can plan your watch-list for the year ahead.

 

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