Even Helena Bonham Carter Can't Stop Four Letters of Love Being a Stodgy Mess

Even Helena Bonham Carter can't stop Four Letters of Love being a stodgy mess

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Four Letters of Love review: Every interior in this preposterous film suggests an Irish theme pub in 1990s Basingstoke

Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne team up with antique spinning-wheels, nuns and vowels from all 32 counties

Four Letters of Love movie review | makes Leap Year look like a paragon of cultural sensitivity

Irish Wish (2024) is nobody’s idea of a good movie, but it’s immeasurably better than Four Letters of Love (2024), Polly Steele’s exhaustingly silly adaptation of Niall Williams’s book of the same name. Lacking humour and Lindsay Lohan, Steele’s mumbo-jumbo hymn to the aul’ country nevertheless features stereotypes a-plenty and an array of staggering performances. When he’s not hurling curses at the moon or walking his pet wolfhound down the bor…

Four Letters of Love review: a by-the-book adaptation

Adapted from the popular novel by Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love pairs two coming-of-age tales with plenty of sincerity but not much style.