"In some ways, that Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is this vacuous and one-dimensional feels like progress. Male directors get to make big, unserious epics all the time. ('How many times have you watched Top Gun: Maverick?' I asked my husband last night. 'This month?' he replied.) Fennell, whose film made $83 million at the global box office during opening weekend, is at least proving, with sticky aplomb, how starved we as a culture are for romance. Margot Robbie, the movie’s co-star and one of its producers, has shrugged off mixed reviews..."
~ Sophie Gilbert
"Why the 'Wuthering Heights' Movie Is Infantilizing"
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