"Heretic" Review
This one is not for the faint of heart.
Last week, I was traveling in Rome to participate in a program with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communications for young professional Catholic communicators. It was amazing and I’m working on a piece about how deeply it affected me. That will be a public post hopefully coming next week.
2025 is supposed to be the year I get serious about writing. A month in an I’ll admit, I’m slacking a little bit.
I flew British Airways this trip, which was a pretty great experience minus my bag getting left in London on the way home for a 24 hour British vacation and some fish and chips.
One of my favorite parts of international travel is the movies. On British Airways, you get unlimited drinks (including alcoholic drinks), and on my flight to Rome, the man in front of me had at least 6 whiskey-Sprites in the first two hours and turned on Finding Nemo. Living his best life.
I took advantage of the unlimited Coke Zero (sorry, Diet Coke friends) and settled in to watch some movies. But as I’ve said before, 2024 was my movie era— I saw 55 movies in the theaters thank to my AMC A-List subscription— and so I had already seen most of the new movies available.
The selection was good, though! Challengers, Fly Me to the Moon, Inside Out 2, Joker: Folie e Deux, Rob Peace, Speak No Evil, Watchers, Thelma, Twisters, and Trap were all available and were some of my favorite movies of 2024.
On the way home, though, I realized I would need to load up my iPad with some movies if I was going to be entertained. I am a big fan of A24 studios (they have lots of movies available on MAX and are mostly weird movies) and have wanted to watch Heretic for a while. So, I loaded it up and turned it on about 5 hours into my return flight.
Heretic is a psychological thriller about two young female mormon missionaries who knock on the door of a man who had previously expressed interest in learning more about “our Lord and savior Jesus Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.”
What ensues is a thrilling battle between belief and unbelief, questioning whether there is one true religion or if all are false, and whether or not God cares about us at all.