Film “A Good Boy” Praised Worldwide
“A Good Boy”, directed by Jan Komasa—a film supported by the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Film Fund—has been receiving excellent reviews worldwide and is being compared to the cult classic “A Clockwork Orange” directed by Stanley Kubrick. The Polish premiere is scheduled for March.
The film’s international premiere took place at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2025. It has already received awards at the 20th Rome Film Fest and at the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain. The film will be released internationally, including in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, the Middle East, and the United States. It will premiere in Polish cinemas on March 6, 2026.
Positive reviews have appeared in influential international outlets such as Deadline, Screen Daily, Collider, and The Guardian. Komasa’s film is compared there to Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. Reviewers also praise the outstanding performance of Stephen Graham.
“A Good Boy” is Jan Komasa’s first English-language film. He is one of the most distinctive creators of contemporary Polish cinema, known for films such as “Suicide Room”, “Warsaw ’44”, “Corpus Christi”, and “Suicide Room: The Hater”. “A Good Boy” offers viewers an intense psychological story about the boundaries between good and evil.
The main character is Tommy, a nineteen-year-old offender who is kidnapped and subjected to forced “rehabilitation” by Chris and Kathryn—a dysfunctional couple determined at all costs to turn him into the titular “good boy.” Imprisoned, he desperately searches for a way to escape. The director portrays mechanisms of pressure—family, school, and social—that lead to the gradual erosion of a young man’s psyche.
A significant contribution to Komasa’s film was made by producer Jerzy Skolimowski, winner of the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Film Award in 2022.
Paweł Jankowski
February 16, 2026