Stephen Graham’s brilliant new thriller has just been added to streaming

Holding an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score, this 2026 thriller is a dark and twisty treat.

Also known as Heel in the US, the movie sees the Adolescence and Boiling Point actor play Chris, a seemingly mild-mannered and polite husband and father who abducts a 19-year-old, foul-mouthed, violent delinquent named Tommy (Anson Boon, MobLand).

The teenager is enraged and horrified when he awakes to find himself chained in the basement of Chris' isolated suburban family home, where the abductor lives with his wife Kathryn (Oscar-nominee Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie), and their young son.

As the family sets out to "reform" Tommy's unruly behaviour, the hooligan is forced to "either comply with their relentless mind games or seek escape at any cost".

Watch the trailer for The Good Boy right here:

Set in Yorkshire, The Good Boy was made by on-the-rise Polish director Jan Komasa (Anniversary, Corpus Christi).

JOE was gripped by the way the Stephen Graham-led thriller upends the viewer's expectations of an abduction thriller.

For example, Tommy seems pretty irredeemable by the time he wakes up in Chris' basement, recalling the thrill-seeking sociopath at the centre of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Alex DeLarge.

Chris and Kathryn, meanwhile, appear genuine when they say they want to help Tommy become a better person, even if their methods of trying to accomplish this are brutal.

The cast is fantastic (particularly Boon and Graham), adding personality and fascinating layers to their archetypal characters. Plus, as the story builds to an enigmatic, strangely haunting conclusion, it asks fascinating questions about the nature of control, rehabilitation, and redemption.

How to watch The Good Boy

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Fresh off its UK cinema release last March and holding an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes, The Good Boy is streaming on Prime Video right now.