Overview
- The film opens on February 13 and currently holds a reported 72% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes after a wave of first reviews.
- Supporters highlight audacious visuals, lavish production design and a pop-inflected soundtrack led by Charli XCX with a score by Anthony Willis.
- Detractors fault emotional thinness, tonal inconsistency and casting choices, with several reviews calling Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi miscast.
- Fennell’s take foregrounds explicit sensuality and deliberately limits the narrative to roughly the first half of Emily Brontë’s novel, using anachronistic touches.
- Industry coverage, including Deadline-cited tracking, anticipates about a $70 million global opening over Valentine’s weekend despite the polarized reaction.