Kingsley and McShane are great. The working-class British accents were so impenetrable that my wife asked for closed captioning which resulted in the word "cunt" appearing onscreen about once every sixty seconds. Some cool vibes but an unsatisfying final act. Also could have done without the weird nightmare rabbit.
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Heretic 2024
A decent first act and a strong performance by Hugh Grant are all this movie has got going for it. Really goes off course in the second act, then gets completely lost in the third.
Also, the film's musings on religion sound like the smug, pedantic rhetoric of George W. Bush-era atheists, like Richard Dawkins, Ricky Gervais, and Bill Maher. Just really annoying stuff.
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Probably as good as this could have been.
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