Heretic Score Details “Anchored by a career-defining performance by Hugh Grant, Heretic keeps your heart rate up and your eyes glued to the screen.” Pros Cons Heretic is a house of cards.
It is a playful, thoughtfully crafted construction that — much like its talkative antagonist — is ultimately full of air. All it would take is one strong gust of wind or a single weak link to cause Heretic to fall completely in on itself. It needs something strong enough to protect itself from that kind of weakness in order to stay standing, and Heretic thankfully finds exactly that in Hugh Grant .
Heretic uses that familiar, good-humored charm to astonishingly great effect. Here, it is employed not to woo viewers or a female love interest, but to disarm the two young women, a pair of naive Mormon missionaries named Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton , who come knocking on his door one rainy evening. They do so in the hopes of converting Grant’s reclusive, approachable Mr. Reed to their Mormon faith, and are initially delighted when their proposition is met with open arms and a curious mind.
Recommended Videos Heretic clicks into sharper place once Reed begins deliberately pushing against his guests’ religious convictions. It’s in this sequence that three things become clear: The brilliance of Grant’s casting, the crackling potential of Beck and Woods’ dialogue, and the precision of Chung Chung-hoon’s cinematography. Beck and Woods’ previous directorial efforts, which include 2023’s sci-fi film 65, didn’t announce them as filmmakers with a particularly powerful visual style.
Related The duo also knows when to provide relief, and in Grant they find a performer capable of transitioning seamlessly between pitch-black comedic levity and dramatic intensity. As Reed, Grant transforms his iconic, boyish smirk into a conniving cheshire grin — one of Hollywood’s most charming rom-com smiles becomes a toothy window into the predatory nature that his character does his best to mask beneath courtesy and cleverness.
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