Predicting The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of 2026's Biggest Movies

Wuthering Heights has already become one of the year's most polarising films before it's even been released, largely due to the perception that writer-director Emerald Fennell is taking excessive liberties with Emily Brontë's sacrosanct original text.

The casting of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in roles they're inappropriately aged for on paper has many purists fuming, no matter that the film's marketing presents its title in quotation marks to indicate that it's an intentionally loose adaptation.

On the plus side, the visuals look absolutely sublime and there's little doubting the acting chops of Robbie and Elordi, so expect this to be a sumptuous, sexy romp firmly in line with Fennell's tricky previous film, Saltburn, which landed 72% with critics.

That is to say, this radical take will probably be enjoyed by most critics, though there will also be some dissenters who balk at the changes made to the source material or simply find Fennell's insistent style overbearing.