Heretic (movie, 2024)

Heretic

Watched April 2, 2025.

In real life, any sacred text can be interpreted to suggest contradictions and other errors. In order to suggest that all sacred texts are wrong, the screenplay's character must pick interpretations as if they are the one and only interpretations. For all the man's intelligence and study, he apparently never talks to anyone who can argue with him in as as an equal. This leaves only young girls who come to his door. If that's the best the writers can do, it's just a run-of-the-mill horror flick and it gets a 7. The girls are too smart for teenagers, the man is too smart for an evil recluse, and the ending shows that the writers were not smart enough to invent a truly satisfying twist.

A Complete Unknown (movie, 2024)

A Complete Unknown

Watched April 1, 2025.

A movie about a folk singer can only be so exciting. It is hard to imagine why any women found such a brooding whiner to be attractive, especially as portrayed by an actor (Chalamet) who looks like a 12-year old, but sex and lovers' spats are the only excitement there could possibly be in Dylan's life. The reenactment of Newport was interesting, but even then, Dylan was a brooding whiner. The best scene is where Al Kooper hits the organ on "Like a Rolling Stone". Taylor Swift should watch this to see how a melody can have more than two pitches.