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‘Heretic’ Review: Hugh Grant Is Genteelly Terrifying as a Creep Hell-Bent on Converting Others to His ‘One True Religion’

By Peter Debruge Sep 15, 2024 | 8:00 PM

You’ve heard of “faith-based movies”? Well, “Heretic” is essentially the opposite. In A24’s thorny, impossible-to-anticipate thriller, co-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (best known as the writers of “A Quiet Place”) ask audiences to accept Hugh Grant as a demented religious scholar so extreme, he’s arranged to trap two Mormon missionaries in his house and […]