A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
  • Network: BritBox
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 17, 2025
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8

Critic Reviews

  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Mar 10, 2025
    60
    A Cruel Love is marred by crass melodrama. .... In later episodes, Boynton brings Ellis’s humanity and vulnerability to the fore (sitting in her cell doing jigsaws; nervously eating her last breakfast) and it’s very powerful.
  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Rebecca Nicholson
    Mar 5, 2025
    60
    At times, A Cruel Love seems similarly hamstrung and never quite feels as if it gets to know Ellis. Perhaps that is the point. There are no clean lines.