For fans of the mannered, ersatz verité of "The Bear" comes the new film "Steve," from Belgian director Tim Mielants. The Netflix film, about a British reform school for troubled teenage boys, swaps ...

Making its World Premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Steve sees the head of a school on its last legs navigating a particularly bad school day, made harder by a documentary news ...

Movies about institutions for schooling the unschoolable used to be a big part of British cinema, whether sly, subversive comedies like the St. Trinian’s franchise or heavy social dramas, which ...

Most schools have one or two problem students. At Stanton Wood, it’s nothing but. Operated by the title character, Steve — into whom lead actor Cillian Murphy channels all sorts of irreconcilable ...

Steve, a film Max Porter adapted from his own novella Shy, asks us to consider what we expect from adaptation. On the page, we enter inside the mind of a teenage boy. It’s chaotic in there. We’re torn ...

We meet Cillian Murphy’s titular character in “Steve” as he’s about to be interviewed on camera. He asks the crew to stop filming him for a moment as he tries to collect himself, but instead the ...