Good Boy

The Oscar-nominated director of Corpus Christi surprises with a twisted genre hybrid set in a grey area where Lanthimos' Dogtooth meets Seidl's In the Basement.

Tommy is a chaotic young man from Manchester who barrels through life without boundaries or regard for consequences, fueled by copious amounts of drugs and alcohol. One day it abruptly ends when he wakes up chained in a basement, held captive by a family with an unconventional rehabilitation method for young men like him. He soon realizes that to have any chance of escape, he must convince them that he is a “good boy.” Anson Boon is magnetic in the lead role as the volatile Tommy, while Stephen Graham delivers one of his most unsettling performances in this Jan Komasa–directed tale of Stockholm syndrome.

• Annie Karlsson