Wuthering Heights 2011

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ...a film that is always interesting but never entirely compelling. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: An admirable, frustrating attempt to strip away the novel's inherited "classic" status and restore its raw and earthy passion. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: You feel its damp chill, enveloping the characters like a rough, thick cloak; if you screamed into this wind, nobody would hear you. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's an unexpected take on Wuthering Heights, one made all the more powerful, and no less faithful, for its unconventional choices. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Arnold is so much stronger on atmosphere than event that she comes to seem resentful of Bronte's plot, and the final scenes are less discomfiting than laughable. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: In reality it's a bit of a slog. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Lyrical and minimalist - if you don't care for such qualities, you may just find it slow ... Read more

Amanda Mae Meyncke, Film.com: ...Utterly absorbing, [Arnold] has created something lasting and beautiful, the kind of film that is entirely engaging. Read more

Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: An audaciously and satisfyingly stark, direct and radical approach to an oft-filmed literary classic. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: It's just that there isn't enough story - the book shouldn't be required reading for the film to make sense. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: All of the book's poetry is gone; it isn't even a memory. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is what the movies can do. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR: 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. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: 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. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Arnold ... has put her stamp on Emily Bronte's 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights, but it's a smudged and imperfect stamp, to be sure. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Arnold has been successful in reimagining the story's archetypal emotions in the story, bringing it closer to its passionate elements. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: 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. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Essentially a misunderstanding of (or an inability to convey) the breathing soul of this material. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: 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. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Arnold drastically pares back dialogue and exposition, telling the classic tale of passion and revenge with probing, harshly sensual camera work and a minimum of sentimentality. Read more

Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: Its singular and unflinching vision is always admirable and often breathtaking. Read more

Mary Corliss, TIME Magazine: Faithful and bold... Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: This 'Wuthering Heights' looks astounding and there are clever decisions in almost every scene. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: This weird, yearning movie could become beloved to many, just as the novel has been. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: 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. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: Unfortunately more interesting in theory than it is to watch. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Undoubtedly, its coup de grace has everything to do with race. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: With so much attention paid to mood and imagery, emotions seem to get lost in the wind. Read more