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For the most part,Wicked Little Lettersis a serviceable trifle.
Dear Gladys, thank God your dad got shot, you smelly bitch, so on and so forth.
Mores of the time are such that the letters constitute criminal conduct beyond simple harassment.
The film also shares a sledgehammers reductive nature.
It wouldve been easy to writeWicked Little Lettersoff as purely forgettable if it werent for one particular thread.
Unfortunately, you cant really talk about it without spoiling the (exceedingly obvious) twist.
(Im about to talk about, so consider this a spoiler alert.)
For one glorious scene, I was convinced I was watching a movie with more on its mind.
