Heel
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 6, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The TimesEd PottonMar 18, 2026
Boon’s already considerable charisma is somehow magnified by Tommy’s incarceration and Graham and Riseborough prove yet again that they can find humanity in even the most disturbing characters. Please let this not be their last joint project. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 5, 2026
The movie’s ironies and cruelties clatter across the screen, but Komasa also allows the audience to consider who it is Chris really wants to train. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 5, 2026
Infused with the D.N.A. of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Heel is an uneasy study of subjugation and transformation. Rock-solid performances from Boon and Graham maintain its precarious balance between anxiety and absurdity. Read full review
75
TheWrapMatthew CreithMar 5, 2026
Good Boy is doggone exceptional when it comes to the powerhouse acting abilities of Graham and Boon, both of whom take on their roles to showcase opposite ends of the rehabilitation spectrum. But even with talent at the helm both in front of and behind the camera, Kosama’s disjointed thriller is predictable throughout and never reaches the emotionality it seeks from its audience. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeMar 1, 2026
By keeping some of its cards close to its chest, Heel respects our intelligence, which helps it to earn its sneakily moving ending. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 9, 2026
Under Komasa’s direction, the mix of fractured fable and terroristic morality play in Bartek Bartosik’s screenplay is absurd but potent, giving Heel enough psychologically twisted juju to nearly always feel like more than the sum of its parts. Read full review
70
Screen DailyNikki BaughanMar 5, 2026
There’s something deeply compelling about this deliberately odd, carefully-calibrated neo-gothic fable, which suggests that rehabilitation can be found in the darkest of places, and that true freedom is simply a matter of trust. Read full review
67
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMar 9, 2026
You might wish Heel were a bit funnier, a bit scarier, a bit more twisted, but it’s still pungently creepy in the right ways and anchored by a suite of top-tier actors capable of wringing empathy out of the darkest Freudian corners of a fucked-up family. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerMar 5, 2026
Heel wants to have its cake and eat it too, to present this darkly comic absurdity while dipping back into reality only when it suits the film. Read full review
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