Spotlight: “Steve”
It’s back to school time with sharp-eyed Cillian Murphy in “Steve,” from Netflix

Spotlight: “Steve”

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy excels as a teacher at a last-chance reform school with his own demons to conquer.

By Peter Travers

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★★★ (3 out of 4)

From “Peaky Blinders” to “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy has the gift of making his eyes speak volumes. Which is good since the head teacher Murphy plays in “Steve,” now streaming on Netflix after only two weeks in theaters, is often mute from his exhausting labors at Stanton Wood, a struggling reform school in mid–1990s England.