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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The day we meet him, there is a film crew shooting a piece on the school, which they hope will put a positive spotlight on the ...

Steve, a film Max Porter adapted from his own novellaShy, 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 ...

When we first meet the title character in Tim Mielants’ chaotic drama “Steve,” he’s sitting down for a recorded interview about Stanton Wood, the private reform school for teenage boys where he serves ...

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 ...

“There’s so much, and it’s a lot, but hold tight because you won’t always feel like this.” At Stanton Wood, each day is a fresh start for students — until the fire alarm is pulled, or windows are ...

Since winning the best actor Oscar for Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy has opted to work twice with Belgian director Tim Mielants, first with well-received 2024 historical drama Small Things Like These, ...

Steve spans wildly eventful 24 hours at Stanton Wood. Head teacher Steve (Murphy) interrupts his commute when he sees a student, Shy (Jay Lycurgo) swaying in a field just off the school grounds. "This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For fans of the mannered, ersatz verité of “The Bear” comes the new film “Steve,” from Belgian director Tim Mielants. The Netflix ...

TIFF: Tim Mielants' film is trying quite hard to be a bracing and immersive depiction of rehabilitation’s hard toil. It doesn't add up. It’s an enervating sit, a film manically hustling to distract ...