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Film critic Peter Travers reviews "Heretic," directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East.

Hugh Grant's faith-based villain steals the show in Heretic, the latest horror film from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

Hugh Grant moves away from his typical charming roles and transforms into a religion-obsessed villain in "Heretic." It's in theaters Friday, Nov. 8.

It turns out that the effervescent but neurotic wit and charm that made Hugh Grant an enduring romantic lead actor translates quite well to horror. His disar...

Late in his career, Grant has become very adept at curving the English charms that made him a star toward malice.

Former rom-com fixture plays a Hannibal-like creep in horror film marred by tired tropes.

A24's Heretic isn’t as clever as it thinks it is, but it’s still a fun time at the movies.

The new A24 horror film comes from the writers of A Quiet Place.

Two young religious women find themselves trapped in the lair of a madman in A24’s latest horror, a mini-masterpiece of a thriller.

The stammering charmer of rom-coms becomes a freaky creep in a creaky old house.

Smart horror thriller stars Hugh Grant in full villain mode.

'Heretic' is a surprisingly intense chamber piece with excellent performances that lift the film above its escape room horror contemporaries.

Two mormons are caught up in theological terror in Beck & Woods' twisty horror thriller. Read the Empire review.

In 'Heretic,' Hugh Grant delivers a magnetic, terrifying performance. The film is a theological debate wrapped in horror trappings. Read Entertainment Weekly...

Two Mormon evangelists are tasked with converting a reclusive older man in 'A Quiet Place' duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' feature co-starring Sophie Thatch...

The actor’s performance is all the better because he never leans into the trademarks of onscreen psychopathy. It’s all placid and casual logic

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' verbose chamber piece is too polite for sacrilege, but it has a tense and funny time testing its characters' faith.

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Grant’s insidious politeness remains intact no matter how gonzo Heretic gets.

Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East and a perversely charming Hugh Grant commit to a deftly acted, somewhat predictable horror movie set in a remote house with secrets.

Esto es lo que puedes esperar de ‘Heretic’, ‘Small Things like These’ y ‘Christmas Eve in Miller's Point’

"Heretic" merely seeks to provoke - and to entertain. On both levels, it's a sinfully sweet success.

Two Mormon missionaries get more than they bargained for when they drop in on Hugh Grant in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' effective psychological horror.

He's played villains before, but none have been this diabolical

In wily, vamping style, the actor plays a friendly neighbor to two missionaries before turning his home into a horror-filled slaughterhouse.

In this scathing review, Rex Reed rips into Hugh Grant’s misguided attempt at horror, describing the film as a “pointless screamfest” that’s more ide...

As a housebound sadist menacing a pair of Mormon missionaries, Hugh Grant gives the least engaged and most profoundly joyless performance of his five-decade...

Heretic is a surprisingly smart, deliciously dementedhorror film from the duo of Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (the original writersof A Quiet Place, whose most r...

It's "Saw" meets "Silence."

“Heretic” is a simple but smart thriller about faith, a horror movie of ideas that is as sinister as it is cerebral. The writers of “A Quiet Place” a...

The British actor's unsettling take on a religiously pious man who tests two missionaries' faith is the main reason to see this A24 horror flick.

The best reason to see writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ thriller is Hugh Grant’s smiling menace as the reclusive Mr. Reed. It’s the same sl...

Hugh Grant plays a game of cat-and-mouse with two young Mormon missionaries in this verbose A24 chiller

A24's Heretic is a tense and extremely entertaining horror movie with killer performances from Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East.

At first, Grant doesn’t look like a monster in Heretic, then he pushes his familiar mannerisms into grotesque caricature.

Grant seems to be having the time of his life in the humorous horror film “Heretic,” charming you with weirdness as he torments Mormon missionaries.

Missionary work has always fascinated me. Not when it’s performed abroad as a means of indoctrinating people who might otherwise be unaware. I mean here, i...

Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East star as Mormon girls who unfortunately end up at the house of a psychopath (Hugh Grant) in 'Heretic.'

The film, written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Wood (the screenwriters of “A Quiet Place”), turns the actor's awkward grin into a symbol of fear ...

TIFF 2024: Hugh Grant is devastatingly sharp in A24's latest horror movie, "Heretic," co-starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East.

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A claustrophobic horror movie tackles religion, with a particularly erudite villain.

The two missionaries should have thought twice about entering the elaborate trap where Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ theological mind game takes place.

Grant’s been terrific in recent years as characters of questionable moral standing, but his riveting turn in Heretic is something else entirely.

Grant’s been terrific in recent years as characters of questionable moral standing, but his riveting turn in Heretic is something else entirely.

Being trapped as someone mansplains religion to you is the real horror.