The new Hummingbird divides opinions: from one to five stars from British critics

Emotionally hollow, too fleshy, wild, breathtaking, flashy like a Disney movie. Coming to the premiere in Finland this week A humming brush has divided critics’ opinions.

British news media Independent gave Emily Brontë a one-star crushing review for the film adaptation of the classic novel.

Critic Clarisse Loughrey writes in his review Emerald Fennellin that the film he directed gives a new face to the literacy crisis in the modern world.

According to Loughrey, the film “skinned” one of the most passionate and emotionally violent novels of all time, coating what’s left with romantic commercialism. He also criticized the film’s decision to hide the story’s racial issue by choosing a white man to play the role of the dark-skinned Heathcliff. Jacob Elordin.

In Loughrey’s opinion, the gothic love story has turned into a flashy Disney movie in Fennell’s hands.

British newspapers Daily Mail and The Guardian consider the year 2026 Humisevaa harjua as a two-star movie.

Film critic Peter Bradshaw describes the drama in The Guardian as too hot, greedy, emotionally empty, unsuccessful – and a fashion shoot.

The characters are melodramatic: chests heave, the tops of clothes are torn, and Heathcliff’s thin fabric shirt never dries.

In terms of style, the film resembles Bradshaw Baz Luhrmanin production, which includes, among other things Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby – Kultahattu and Elvis. Towards the end, he says, it’s exhausting, and the film starts to resemble a soundtrack Charli XCX:n music video.

Critics repeatedly joke that the film flirts with BDSM and sadomasochistic imagery: the hanged man gets an erection, the woman wears a collar, and riding equipment is included in the lovemaking in the stable.

The Daily Mail Brian Viner describes the film as an erotic hit novel Fifty Shades of Grey and a mix of Grimm’s fairy tales. Even Joseph, the grumpy and devout servant in the book, has been transformed into a character whose lustful sex games, according to Viner, would make the average viewer blush.

Entertainment site Collider’s supplier Therese Lacson described the film as even offensive to those who have read the acclaimed novel, and that it would make the author, who died in 1848, turn in his grave.

According to Lacson, Humiseva harju has been stripped of the entire original story, which makes the adaptation soulless.

The Hollywood reporter by forgetting the original work and looking at it with an open mind A humming brush is an entertaining film and the director’s best so far. Critic David Rooney believes that the film will especially appeal to young people and will make many people’s tear ducts wet.

The Telegraph – a critic in a British newspaper Robbie Collin again gave the provocative love drama a full five stars.

“Humiseva Harju is a heart-wrenching, breathtaking thriller. Emerald Fennell’s cheekily unfaithful Emily Brontë adaptation takes Margot Robbien and into the trembling, boundary-breaking depths of Jacob Elord,” Collin writes.

According to him, the fact that the film is wild, dripping wet and enchantingly sparkling is more interesting than faithfulness to the original work.

The film about obsessive love also garnered a lot of three-star ratings. For example The Sun described it as violent and funny, but that the sex takes up space from other content.