Wicked Little Letters review – a deliciously sweary poison-pen mystery | Film
Before X or Twitter or even YouTube, if you wanted to vent your rage at an unjust world on a blameless bystander you had to go to the trouble of actually writing a letter and posting it. These were the days of the poison pen letter, an early 20th-century socio-criminal phenomenon here revived by comedian Jonny Sweet’s gleefully sweary script and a competent ensemble of British comedy’s finest directed by Thea Sharrock.Swearwords, you see, can be very funny – especially when primly pronounced by a pious spinster such as…