Wuthering Heights

Radio Times“An earthly, elemental dramatisation...” It's a boldly modernist approach designed to irritate purists, and although it's pleasingly tactile, it's perhaps too avant garde; its fractured narrative and glimpses of lens flare constantly break the spell of the period fiction...

Guardian“A passionate, elemental drama...” The film gave me something I never expect to get from any classic literary adaptation: the shock of the new...

The Independent“Teaches you the real meaning of the word "buffeted"...” It answers to something in the novel, both for its keen-eyed absorption in the elements, and its matter-of-fact awareness of human fragility...

The Telegraph“Strange, profane and flecked with rime and spittle...” I loved it – although I suspect Brontë fans who think the most admirable take on her novel to date is the musical version starring Cliff Richard in a self-adhesive beard will choke on the film like it’s a misshapen mint humbug...

Time Out“Non-decorous approach to period...” British filmmaker’s first period adaptation, but her trademarks are all there. Nature offers cameos from hawks, dogs, rabbits, sheep and beetles. Landscape and wildlife are substitutes for needless dialogue and exposition...

Little White Lies“Its second half struggles to hit Brontë’s emotional beats...” Heights is best in its superior first half when it unites the coarse beauty of the Yorkshire moors with an impressive cast of young first-timers, all of whom deliver raw, unsentimental turns that pulsate with feeling...

Empire“An obsessive friendship...” An astonishing-looking adaptation that captures the setting of the book, and its darkness, wonderfully, but goes too far towards edgy in its quest to avoid the usual literary clichés...

Total Film “Arnold makes Brontë her own... ” Fish Tank auteur’s rethink was never going to be cut from the refined cloth of CliffsNotes or Cliff Richard’s musical. Her handheld camera slams us right into the thick of a dog-poor family in a haggard northern farm...