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SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY

(12A), 104mins

★★★★★

Hugh Grant plays chilling Mr Reed in Heretic[/caption]

ENJOY Hugh Grant relishing his turn as a terrifying toff, in this cerebral creep scare.

Grant is the seemingly harmless Mr Reed, who invites two young Mormon missionaries, Sister Paxton (Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Barnes (Chloe East) into his remote house to tell him more about their faith as a snowstorm rages.

Naive Sister Barnes is in awe of her friend’s record of landing “eight or nine” new Mormons and keen to secure her first conversion, so, after checking as per church rules that his wife is in the house, the two enter.

Our young apostles quickly realise sociopathic Mr Reed has a very different transcendental experience in mind.

Things descend into cat and mouse fare with plenty of slasher and jump frights.

But the script is best as predator and prey ramp up the dread levels by holding religious dichotomies under the microscope.

Charming, chilling Mr Reed comparing different faith doctrines to board games and Radiohead albums, while our young preachers defend their theological beliefs by quoting TikTok back is sharp, smart, and superbly scary.

LAURA STOTT

BLITZ

(12A) 120mins   

Alamy

Second World War movie Blitz looks at some of the characters trapped in London during the air raids[/caption]

DURING the eight-month Blitz in 1940 around 30,000 Londoners lost their lives.

Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen’s Second World War movie looks at some of the characters trapped in the capital.

His hero is George (Elliott Heffernan), a mixed-race boy who lives with his white mum, Rita, (Saoirse Ronan) and grandad (Paul Weller in his first acting role).

Rita makes the difficult decision to evacuate George, who is so furious his last words to her are “I hate you.”

Racked with guilt, he jumps from the moving train and makes his way back to London, meeting an eclectic mix of goodies and baddies on his long and dangerous journey home.

He faces racism throughout, with the message becoming pretty relentless.

After getting off to an explosive start, Blitz loses its way, weaving from shocking bomb scenes to sickly-sweet period drama with some toe curling clichés.

There’s some ropey characterisation, mostly the Dickensian thieves played by Stephen Graham and Kathy Burke.

Ronan as always is a scene stealer, but this war film doesn’t live up to its potential.