A 19-year-old criminal, Tommy, is kidnapped and forced into a rehabilitation process by a dysfunctional couple, Chris and Kathryn, who try to make him a "good boy." Tommy must find...
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★★★★★
An interesting delivery of a corporal rehabilitation story that purposefully sprinkles a bunch of incomplete details.
Who is Charlie. We never explicitly are told. Is he a lost elder child of the family?
How was he lost? We see scratched grafitti on the desk...
★★★★★
In edgy Brit-drama "Heel" (aka "Good Boy") vile anti-social yob Anson Boon (good) is snatched by odd Stephen Graham (strong again) who imprisons him in the basement of the isolated home he shares with equally odd wife Andrea Riseborough, young son Kit Rakusen,...
★★★★★
It's a funny old film this. I spent most of it wondering if there was more going on than was apparent. Although it finished with a couple of deliberate loose ends it seems that basically the plot was simply what I'd been looking at all along.
I suppose I'm a...
★★★★★
Heel (aka Good Boy) is beautiful and heartfelt, as if it existed on a coin on the other side of Rent A Family. This is not a horror, but rather a drama wrapped in a thriller with a bold premise with a strong emotional payoff.
Anchored in beautiful performance...
★★★★★
Last night's 'Secret Screening' was UK/Polish thriller "The Good Boy". I was very happy as this was one of those occasions where I knew absolutely nothing about the film going in, not seen a trailer, nor even a poster. I enjoyed what I saw quite a bit.
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