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Wuthering Heights Sexiness Divides Critics

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Emerald Fennell’s erotic adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, opened in cinemas to mixed reviews praising sexiness and chemistry but calling it emotionally hollow.

The Guardian
Is Jacob Elordi really the hottest man on the planet? Six things you need to know

Gen Z fell in love with him on the small screen, but with the release of Emerald Fennell’s steamy new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the Aussie actor’s star is set to shine even brighter Jacob Elordi is Heathcliff. The 28-year-old Australian actor has scarcely been out of the headlines since his controversial casting in Emerald Fennell’s imminent adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Now, in the week of the film’s release, he’s being hailed as “the hottest man on the planet”, tipped as a future Oscar winner and household name. Not even mixed early reviews seem to be slowing the momentum. Truly, these heights must seem wuthering to the boy from Brisbane who fell in love with acting after being cast as The Cat in The Hat. “As soon as I was singing and dancing with the big hat on, I knew that that was what I wanted to do, ” Elordi said last December. But who is he, and what’s behind his rapid rise? Continue reading. . .

Is Jacob Elordi really the hottest man on the planet? Six things you need to know
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Svenska Dagbladet
The rumor is true - this is unbearable

The classic has been adapted into film countless times; now it's the Saltburn director's turn. The new Wuthering Heights is a drawn-out study in cheesy voyeurism.

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Dagens Nyheter
Overheated, emotionally cold reinterpretation of Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie

Emerald Fennell's overheated reinterpretation of Emily Brontë's passionate classic unfortunately does not reach dizzying heights. Despite strong on-screen chemistry between Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, the erotically charged drama feels empty and lifeless, notes Helena Lindblad.

Overheated, emotionally cold reinterpretation of Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie
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VRT NWS
Longing for love in 'Wuthering Heights' on a special soundtrack by Charli XCX

The Valentine's film of 2026 opens today: 'Wuthering Heights', an adaptation of Emily Brontë's literary classic. Director Emerald Fennell tells the timeless tale of an impossible love in a passionate way. A leading role in her film features Charli XCX's music, alongside Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

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Der Spiegel
Wuthering Heights – Stormy Heights

Emerald Fennell's film drama 'Wuthering Heights – Stormy Heights' with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi is a seductive, aesthetically pleasing, beautiful, incredibly sexy work. As long as you haven't read the original.

Wuthering Heights – Stormy Heights
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Der Spiegel
Wuthering Heights: When the film doesn't end after the credits - fans annoyed by the press tour

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi tour the world with staged flirts to promote their film 'Wuthering Heights'. The spectacle shows how films are marketed today - and why it can quickly get on people's nerves.

Wuthering Heights: When the film doesn't end after the credits - fans annoyed by the press tour
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Le Monde
Wuthering Heights: a 'dark romance' envisioned by Margot Robbie

Emerald Fennell uses Emily Brontë's novel to unfold a catalog of sequences punctuated by erotic scenes in which the actress is omnipresent.

Wuthering Heights: a 'dark romance' envisioned by Margot Robbie
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Der Standard
"Wuthering Heights" with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi: Hot, but what else?

The British director Emerald Fennell throws conventions and fidelity to the source material out the window and serves up an erotically unleashed Brontë adaptation for Valentine's Day.

"Wuthering Heights" with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi: Hot, but what else?
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The Sidney Morning Herald
Movies to watch this week: Wuthering Heights gets steamy makeover, new horror falls flat

Welcome to our weekly wrap of what’s new in cinemas.

Movies to watch this week: Wuthering Heights gets steamy makeover, new horror falls flat
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El Pais
Margot Robbie's 'trophy husband' or how the promotion of a film turned him into a meme

The promotional tour for 'Wuthering Heights' has fueled the idea of a stunning chemistry - and more - between Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. While social media celebrates that fantasy spark, the actress's husband and producer of the film is meme material.

Margot Robbie's 'trophy husband' or how the promotion of a film turned him into a meme
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