Film Review - Wicked Little Letters (2024)

Wicked Little Letters stars Olivia Coleman as Edith, a woman who lives at home with her conservative father (Timothy Spall) and who has been receiving wicked letters with profane language in them and she suspects her next door neighbour Rose (Jesse Buckley) who is unmarried and likes to go to bars and behave suspiciously but there is more to this than one sees.

Wicked Little Letters is good fun and I laughed quite a bit watching it but the film earns it’s MA15+ rating here in Australia as it has a lot of fowl language and if that kind of thing bothers you a fair bit then I won’t recommend this movie but if it doesn’t it’s good fun.

And firstly I have to mention Jesse Buckley in this movie as she is really one of the best actresses around right now and she is so much fun to watch here in both her rowdy pub scenes, her standing up for herself moments or even in the quieter moments where she is fighting for her innocence and ever since Wild Rose in 2018 she has been a real fan favourite of movie goers and here is no exception.

Olivia Coleman on the other hand who has rarely given a bad performance in a film well I struggled with her performance in this movie at times mainly because I struggled to buy her in this role as a straight laced God fearing woman and she has this devilish sense of humour be it in Hot Fuzz or Wonka and here I just thought “I’m not quite buying it here” now that isn’t to say she is bad on the whole as she gets better as the film goes on but in the opening parts of it I struggled with her performance.

And so that was Wicked Little Letters and it is good fun if your not bothered by fowl language, 3 out of 5.