POSITIVES:
1) The performances are all very good. Colman and Buckley really carry the film, but the supporting performances from the likes of Spall and Scanlan are really good too 2) I really found the film to be laugh out loud funny. It's a very British level of humour and it hits that sweet spot really well 3) I was pleasantly surprised by how emotional and impactful the film actually was on top of the humour. Rose's relationship with her daughter and Edith's relationship with her father are both subjects that the film takes really seriously and it managed to juggle this seriousness with the overall humour in an impressively deft way
NEGATIVES:
1) There were certainly times where the film was a bit too quaint for me and I could've done with a bit more bite 2) I found the writing to be quite lazy at times. Basically every male character is evil or stupid or both, whilst every female character is probably fleshed out and three dimensional 3) The film wraps up a bit too neatly for me. I was quite impressed by the twist that Edith was writing all the letters all along, but the film didn't really do enough for me in terms of highlighting how essentially insane Edith clearly is - she literally causes the death of her own mother and doesn't seem to care?? Also I didn't really get how the invisible ink on the postage stamp was enough to convict Edith beyond any reasonable doubt?
1) The performances are all very good. Colman and Buckley really carry the film, but the supporting performances from the likes of Spall and Scanlan are really good too 2) I really found the film to be laugh out loud funny. It's a very British level of humour and it hits that sweet spot really well 3) I was pleasantly surprised by how emotional and impactful the film actually was on top of the humour. Rose's relationship with her daughter and Edith's relationship with her father are both subjects that the film takes really seriously and it managed to juggle this seriousness with the overall humour in an impressively deft way
NEGATIVES:
1) There were certainly times where the film was a bit too quaint for me and I could've done with a bit more bite 2) I found the writing to be quite lazy at times. Basically every male character is evil or stupid or both, whilst every female character is probably fleshed out and three dimensional 3) The film wraps up a bit too neatly for me. I was quite impressed by the twist that Edith was writing all the letters all along, but the film didn't really do enough for me in terms of highlighting how essentially insane Edith clearly is - she literally causes the death of her own mother and doesn't seem to care?? Also I didn't really get how the invisible ink on the postage stamp was enough to convict Edith beyond any reasonable doubt?