The new Wuthering Heights adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi has received mixed reviews from critics, and the fundamental deviations from Emily Brontë’s timeless classic is being cited as the key reason for why Emerald Fennell’s period drama fails to stick the landing.
The 2026 version reads like an entirely different version of the story, one packed with so much sexual tension and explicit physicality that it transforms the Gothic piece into an erotic spectacle, the kind you might find in live-action adaptations of romantasy books rather than one of the greatest novels of the English language on class differences, moral complexity, and the destructive cycles of revenge and obsession.
