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The 2026 adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights offers audiences a fairly mediocre, yet aesthetically intriguing tragic love story starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the titular characters Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff respectively.
The technical aspects of the film are truly impressive with sweeping on-location shots of the English countryside dominating the majority of the early runtime, while weather, specifically rain and heavy winds, are utilized throughout the film to play into the moody, gothic atmosphere. The film is riddled with unorthodox upclose shots of various creatures and objects acting as interesting transitions between scenes.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s performances were also impressive; never once did it feel like there were two actors playing around on screen and using silly accents. Instead, both actors made their characters come to life in a very believable way. Similarly, the costumes were stunning, further adding to the film’s aesthetic.
While these were quality performances, Catherine is one-dimensional and lacked growth. At the beginning of the movie, Catherine is primarily concerned with herself and loves Heathcliff. At the end of the movie, Catherine is still primarily concerned with herself, and loves Heathcliff. her character remains unchanged throughout all of the film’s events.
Heathcliff, though, goes through a dramatic shift in the narrative. He starts as a servant to Catherine’s family who seldom complains and is shown to sacrifice his own interests for Catherine’s at every turn. He chooses to leave his position, and after a time skip of a couple years, returns to Catherine’s life as a wealthy man after she has already married someone else.
Upon his return, the film portrays Heathcliff as a monstrous devil man, completely betraying his previously established self-sacrificial nature. Heathcliff takes another woman as his wife to make Catherine jealous, and emotionally and physically abuses her.
Both of these characters’ blatant flaws leaves the audience not even rooting for the main characters since they are portrayed as such horrible people. The only verifiably good person in the film, Catherine’s husband, is wronged throughout.
Overall, this film comes off as if all the substantive parts of the source material were explicitly cut out of the film to focus on a steamy love story meant to be released during Valentine’s day weekend, which lacks any nuance overall, giving the film a 2 out of 5 stars.