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 ...
The film takes place over the course of a day or two at a school named Stanton Wood; the year is 1996, and a crew from TV’s Point West show has arrived to record an item for the late-night edition.
Following ‘Small Things Like These’ and ‘Peaky Blinders’ as the Oscar-winning actor’s third collaboration with director Tim Mielants, the Netflix drama also features Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson and ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...