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Film Review - Heretic

Film Review - Heretic

Hugh Grant’s splendidly sinister evangelism target eviscerates religious belief in a gripping cerebral horror flick

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Nov 03, 2024
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Hugh Grant has played unsympathetic characters, cads, and outright villains before, in films like An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), and Paddington 2 (2017), respectively. But he’s never played anyone quite as sinister as Mr Reed, the evangelism target of young Mormon missionaries Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) an…

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