pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
56
from 55 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
10
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
38
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 55 comments (49 from Metacritic, 6 from TMDB reviews) — 30 of them described how it moves.
〰️ uneven — Peaks and dips, no clear shape. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
“until it gradually descends into a series of longwinded fits and starts characterized by disjointed, unrelated, unresolved segments that try viewer patience”
Brent Marchant · TMDB reviews ↗
“by the end it was almost wearing a tiny bit thin”
r96sk · TMDB reviews ↗
“the end is a bit iffy”
r96sk · TMDB reviews ↗
“the ending falls apart”
cogsdoc · Metacritic ↗
“From beginning to end, the film is filled with tons of questionable topics—albeit sensitive in nature—that truly push the audience to the edge of their seats.”
jjstowers · Metacritic ↗
“It’s a tense, slow-burning thriller where every pause feels deliberate, every line carefully chosen.”
decatur555 · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“A mini-masterpiece, with lean filmmaking and lots of surprises.”
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“Expect deep conversations to follow your screening.”
Chris Knight, Original-Cin · 100
“Although it is unashamedly a genre piece, Heretic is not only an expertly engineered work of suspense but also an ingeniously structured colloquy about the most deeply held belief systems.”
Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal · 90
“It gets under the skin and into the mind and does what good psychological horror does best: leaves the viewer unsettled and perhaps a little shaken even after the end credits roll and the lights turn back on.”
James Berardinelli, ReelViews · 88
“Heretic leans on horror and serial killer thriller conventions for its plot and rising suspense. The foreshadowing is obvious, but the ways it is deployed always surprise and chill.”
Roger Moore, Movie Nation · 88
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 80, the watch 56
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“the ending falls apart”
cogsdocabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“From beginning to end, the film is filled with tons of questionable topics—albeit sensitive in nature—that truly push the audience to the edge of their seats.”
jjstowersabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“It’s a tense, slow-burning thriller where every pause feels deliberate, every line carefully chosen.”
decatur555about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Heretic does just that from the very first frame.”
decatur555about 0–15% inread it ↗
“until it gradually descends into a series of longwinded fits and starts characterized by disjointed, unrelated, unresolved segments that try viewer patience”
Brent Marchantabout 33–66% inread it ↗
“by the end it was almost wearing a tiny bit thin”
r96skabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“the end is a bit iffy”
r96skabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“This is a gruesome, bizarre, preposterous, and utterly watchable film. It is a twisted cocktail made surprisingly digestible thanks to Grant's impeccably dapper portrayal of pure malevolence. His performance brings a sinister charm that tempers the madness, making the film's more outlandish horrors feel almost refined.”
griggs79read it ↗
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