Just as bumblingly apologetic as you remember him, only a great deal more, erm, well, hmm, evil, Hugh Grant makes a truly magnetic villain in this grippingly executed A24 horror-thriller. Directed by A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Heretic is bold enough to splice its gnarlier moments with cerebral ideas about the exploitative relationship between faith and organised religion. It pulls the combo off with more depth and assurance than M Night Shyamalan’s similarly-flavoured and equally claustrophobic Knock at the Cabin, and in Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher’s (initially) bright-eyed Mormon evangelists, it has two dogged heroines to root for.
