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Wicked Little Letters

2024 1h 40m
Comedy Drama Mystery
MOVIEVIBE Rating
6.9/10
730 reviews
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Wicked Little Letters

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.

"Be careful what you post."

Top Billed Cast

Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman
Edith Swan
Jessie Buckley
Jessie Buckley
Rose Gooding
Anjana Vasan
Anjana Vasan
Gladys Moss
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall
Edward Swan
Gemma Jones
Gemma Jones
Victoria Swan
Malachi Kirby
Malachi Kirby
Bill
Alisha Weir
Alisha Weir
Nancy Gooding
Joanna Scanlan
Joanna Scanlan
Ann

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

R r96sk Verified TMDB Critic
2024-02-23

Very good, this!

<em>'Wicked Little Letters'</em> is fun. Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley impress in lead roles, both managing to stand out just as much as the other - Colman is particularly perfectly cast. The rest of them merit praise as well, namely Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall.

There isn't much more to note about this really and I don't mean that in a negative way whatsoever. It's all competently put together, as those onscreen bring this rather simple film to life - and I like those type of movies. Well worth a watch!...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2024-03-09

"Edith" (Olivia Colman) is the daughter of the respectable "Swan" family who live a God-fearing life under the aegis of father "Edward" (Timothy Spall) and mother "Victoria" (Gemma Jones). A letter arrives and they gather round the table in trepidation. This isn't the first such letter and it causes dad to head straight to the police station to demand that they arrest their new next door neighbour. She's quite a contrast to the "Swan" prim and proper existence. "Rose" (Jessie Buckley) is a fairly foul mouthed single parent who calls a spade a spade and after befriending "Edith" initially, seem...

R Roberta1970 Verified TMDB Critic
2024-04-02

A very interesting, comical movie. I enjoyed it. Funny how Edith wanted to be like Rose and act upon making it out to be Rose's fault. Which really set the movie into a who dunnit type of film. One never expected that it would have been Edith writing the letters to her family. The foul mouth Edith really learned a lot from Rose, looked like she envied Rose. Spiritually free and doesn't care how flawlessly she became. For her it felt great to speak her mind. Which is what I liked about this movie. Intimidating and free for all type with some craziness acting....

B Brent Marchant Verified TMDB Critic
2024-04-07

Just about everyone loves a good mystery, but, in the case of director Thea Sharrock’s latest, viewers are treated to one that’s both intriguing and utterly hilarious. Based on a true story, this delightfully offbeat offering tells the head-scratching tale of a small seaside community in 1920s England in which residents begin receiving anonymously sent letters filled with graphic profanity of a highly colorful and creative nature. The chief suspect is a recently arrived salty-tongued Irish immigrant (Jessie Buckley) who never hesitates to speak her mind or act out when she thinks it approp...

T tryfonaration Verified TMDB Critic
2024-07-19

If you can bring yourself about to ignore blatant agenda-promoting unhistorical propaganda such as:

* All the protagonist’s friends being women

* An incredibly unhistorical proportion of colored people

* All men in the film presented as prejudiced, misogynistic, evil, morons with the sole exception of the protagonist’s partner, who is of course of African descent, and who is still presented as undecisive, coward and unworthy to rely upon, but eventually manages to do the right thing

* The police officer who actually gets the job done being a woman and on top of that, of Indian...