Our review of Heretic: Hugh Grant bad wolf

For a long time, Hugh Grant played the seducer with a big heart. Four weddings and a funeral, Love at first sight in Notting Hill , Love Actually, Le Come-Back… After starting out with James Ivory (Maurice, The Vestiges of the day), the English actor became the leading light of romantic comedy in the 1990s. In the 2010s, its British charm no longer works. Grant then tries to reinvent himself. He plays six characters in Cloud Atlas (2012), great moment of transformation. He indulges in self-deprecation in Paddington 2 as a megalomaniacal and narcissistic actor. He plays Jeremy Thorpe, gay political leader and murderer in the series A Very English Scandal. He takes on the cockney accent of a tough and pushy private detective in The Gentlemen by Guy Ritchie. Heretic goes even further in the business of demolishing the pretty face that makes women melt.

In the feature film by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, an A24 studio production, Grant plays a real villain…