Heretic

This is a well-acted movie all round, but primarily a vehicle for Grant -- who has played his share of comic villains, but has rarely been asked to be seriously scary.

It's a reminder, particularly in the horror genre, that a good idea and a single location can be a really adventurous roller coaster ride.

[Grant] is commanding in Heretic, which starts out as a psychological thriller and may or may not develop into a full-tilt horror movie.

A complex debate on the legitimacy of religion that arrives framed in absolutely captivating staging. [Full review in Spanish]

As a housebound sadist menacing a pair of Mormon missionaries in the new horror film Heretic, Grant gives the least engaged and most profoundly joyless performance of his five-decade career.

Here [Scott Beck and Bryan Woods] have made a mini-masterpiece, with lean filmmaking and lots of surprises.

The peculiar host strikes the right balance between being friendly and diabolic... [Full review in Spanish]

By the end it is all rather preposterous and silly, more Saw than Psycho, but Hugh Grant’s winning antagonist and Thatcher and East’s likeable leads manage to hold the work together.

The power of Grant's performance can only take a film so far, and soon enough we are back with the genre tropes of endless hectoring and improbable manipulation—first by the bad guy, but even more egregiously by the ham-fisted directing duo.

In Heretic, Grant delivers us one of the most unforgettable – as well as erudite and pithy – villains of the decade so far.