‘Things Heard & Seen’: Rich Filmmaking & Strong Themes Amplify The Scares In Netflix’s Latest Horror [Review]

Three things about James Norton are true: He’s handsome, he knows it, and he knows how to express his handsomeness as utterly loathsome. For the better part of “Things Heard & Seen,” the new film from Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Norton imagines his face as an object well-deserving of a smack, or two, or five, but takes his time building up to punching bag status. Good-looking white men get away with everything. To do so, they have to use their good looks to seduce the people in their orbit through either charm or sexual magnetism. It’s how they shield themselves from consequences. Unfortunately for Norton’s character, George Claire, “Things Heard & Seen” hungers for consequences at any cost.

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