A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
  • Network: BritBox
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 17, 2025
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#47 Best TV Season of 2025

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
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  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.
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    Reviewed by: Julia Raeside
    Mar 7, 2025
    80
    As a period piece, it’s polished and beautifully shot, but as an agent of change, the jury is still out.
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  3. 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.
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