Cillian Murphy plays a beleaguered teacher at an all-boys reform school in this exhausting movie on Netflix. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

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 ...

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 work they are doing, though it doesn’t look like it will. At the same ...

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 ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

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 ...

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 ...