So it loses steam, part of the way through, but worth it for the first portion? Yes, because that is like no other costume drama you have ever seen.

| Aug 31, 2018

Arnold doesn't merely adapt Bronte's story but retells it in her own style, creating a film that can be frustratingly languid to start but becomes mesmerizing as it progresses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5.0 | Nov 30, 2012

In reality it's a bit of a slog.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 29, 2012

Arnold has been successful in reimagining the story's archetypal emotions in the story, bringing it closer to its passionate elements.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2012

Arnold ... has put her stamp on Emily Brontë's 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights, but it's a smudged and imperfect stamp, to be sure.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 8, 2012

I never found a way in, and I couldn't wait for a way out.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 19, 2012

Essentially a misunderstanding of (or an inability to convey) the breathing soul of this material.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2012

Lyrical and minimalist - if you don't care for such qualities, you may just find it slow ...

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2012

You feel its damp chill, enveloping the characters like a rough, thick cloak; if you screamed into this wind, nobody would hear you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2012

Arnold is so much stronger on atmosphere than event that she comes to seem resentful of Brontë's plot, and the final scenes are less discomfiting than laughable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2012

She's made a massive miscalculation in shooting it this way. It's a story of grand passion and she misses out completely on the passion, partly because the actors are inexperienced and they don't deliver the goods in terms of performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2012

With so much attention paid to mood and imagery, emotions seem to get lost in the wind.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2012

It's just that there isn't enough story - the book shouldn't be required reading for the film to make sense.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2012

All of the book's poetry is gone; it isn't even a memory.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2012

Arnold, a director of uncommon originality, attacks our very notion of what a costume drama should look like. The result is neither dainty nor remotely refined: It's an animalistic, mud-splattered howl of torment.

| Oct 5, 2012

If you can slow down your movie metabolism enough to acclimate to its world, Arnold's naturalistic retelling grasps an elemental truth about the novel.

| Oct 5, 2012

If you can handle the glacial pacing and lack of dialogue, there is a certain squirmy satisfaction to watching this well-worn story of love, cruelty and madness play out minus the long-winded speeches and romantic catharsis.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2012

This impressionistic take includes some strikingly authentic visuals, but the acting is lackluster and the languorous story often sinks into tedium with its focus on the minutiae of country life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2012

I love this movie, and love the way it burrows through an English-lit classic to deliver a sensory, kinetic experience that's true to the book but also entirely different.

| Oct 4, 2012

An admirable, frustrating attempt to strip away the novel's inherited "classic" status and restore its raw and earthy passion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2012