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<p>Filmmaker Emerald Fennell, flanked by Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, at the London photo call for ‘Wuthering Heights’</p>

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Emerald Fennell is good, actually

The British filmmaker’s new movie ‘Wuthering Heights’ has largely received a critical drubbing. But the style may be the point, writes Adam White, who’s come to love her propensity for posh sex, pop-video silliness, and the marvellously asinine

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<p>Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’</p>

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