Wicked Little Letters
- 2024 film
Comedy based on a true story, starring Olivia Colman as a pious woman who begins to receive scandalous letters. Also features Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby and more.
Streaming rank this week: 329
Press clippings
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Katherine Lenahan, Little White Lies, 27th September 2024Wicked Little Letters review: prim, proper and profane
Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley elevate a comedy about a weird true tale of defamation and dirty words.
Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times, 28th March 2024Wicked Little Letters review
As well-meaning and sporadically funny as it may be, Wicked Little Letters is too dated and tepid to be anything except forgettable.
Chloe Walker, Paste Magazine, 4th March 2024Wicked Little Letters review
Though there is little variation in shot types (averaging on medium and long shots) the witty dialogue by far makes up for it.
Tess Bowen, Brig Newspaper, 24th February 2024Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley: 'Never repress a woman - because it will come out'
The actors star in a true-life 1920s tale of a snobbish small town upset by poison-pen letters. They discuss falling in love with one another, the f-word and the parallels with today's internet trolling.
Claire Armitstead, The Guardian, 23rd February 2024Wicked Little Letters review
Olivia Colman's foul mouth is really f**king funny.
Matthew Turner, i Newspaper, 23rd February 2024Wicked Little Letters review
Olivia Colman dropping the F-bomb is not enough to sustain Thea Sharrock's story about hate-mail in 1920s Littlehampton.
Kevin Maher, The Times, 23rd February 2024Wicked Little Letters review
Wicked Little Letters is not as wild as it could have been.
Mireia Mullor, Digital Spy, 23rd February 2024Wicked Little Letters review
Jessie Buckley and Olivia Colman create fabulous fireworks together.
Chris Wasser, The Independent (Ireland), 23rd February 2024Wicked Little Letters review
Olivia Colman hurling expletives is enough to sustain this witty true-life comedy.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 22nd February 2024