“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Texas football quarterback Arch Manning hasn't lived up to the astronomical hype he entered the 2025 season with through three games, mostly struggling against UTEP on Saturday, Sept. 13. Manning, the ...

Everyone knows the old yarn about bad movies always being too long and good movies never being long enough, but that leaves out the hazy middle ground, where subpar movies either tease the possibility ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Insolent schoolkids and educators with the stamina and sensitivity to reach them is a sentimental formula so ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reteaming with 'Small Things Like These' director Tim Mielants, the 'Oppenheimer' star plays a desperate reform school teacher opposite a rowdy ensemble of totally convincing young actors. In theory, ...

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 ...

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 ...