US EditionNetflix’s new drama with Cillian Murphy is one of the most chaotic movies I’ve ever seen — and you can stream it now
Set over 24 intense hours, Steve struggles to guide troubled boys at a 1990s English reform school while facing threats of closure and government scrutiny.
- October 3 marks the global Netflix launch of Steve, reuniting Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy with director Tim Mielants.
- Adapted from Max Porter's novella Shy, the film shifts perspective to Steve and is set at Stanton Wood, reform school, in 1996.
- Charting one 24-hour period, staff face closure, a documentary film crew, a member of Parliament visit and a suicide attempt amid chaotic students at Stanton Wood.
- Murphy's production company Big Things Films debuted this project, spotlighting Stanton Wood pupils and the emotional toll on educators and caregivers.
- Critics call Steve a smaller but urgent Netflix contender, praising its propulsive, frenetic pacing across a 92 minutes runtime shaped by Tim Mielants' stylistic influence.
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Cillian Murphy on Portraying the ‘Real F—ing Horror’ of Addiction in Netflix Drama ‘Steve,’ Going From ‘Oppenheimer’ to Indies and Why He’s Not Playing Voldemort
Cillian Murphy on portraying the 'real f---ing horror' of addiction in his new Netflix drama 'Steve' and why he won't be playing Voldemort.
The actor with a Oscar for "Oppenheimer" returns this Friday on Netflix, in the role of a teacher of a desperate recovery school, faced with very convincing young actors.
Cillian Murphy on the universal struggle that attracted him to Steve: "99 per cent of us are trying and failing"
On the face of it, Cillian Murphy's new film Steve – which is now streaming on Netflix – is extremely different to his last feature, Small Things Like These.Although both share the same director, the Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants, tonally and stylistically they are more or less diametrically opposed: the previous film a restrained, quiet drama, the new one an experimental and chaotic affair.But despite those major difference in the way the two …
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