Film review - Wicked Little Letters, scandal in 1920s England

Olivia Colman hurling expletives is enough to sustain Wicked Little Letters – review

Colman plays a judgy 1920s Little Englander inundated with vulgar correspondences in the post – with Jessie Buckley’s colourful Irish immigrant the prime suspect

Film review - Wicked Little Letters, scandal in 1920s England

WICKED Little Letters is one for all those who found Downton Abbey too stiff in the upper lip for its own good. Those who longed to see Maggie Smith…

Wicked Little Letters review: Olivia Colman entertains in thin film

Wicked Little Letters is an entertaining if surface-level new British comedy An assortment of beloved British actors are put in a very unusual position in this UK comedy loosely based on a true story. Set in the 1920s in a small village, Edith, played by Olivia Colman, doesn’t think much of her new neighbour, a liberated young Irish woman called Rose, played by Jessie Buckley. When Edith begins receiving obscene, insulting anonymous letters, Ro…