By Mark Meszoros, The News-Herald (Willoughby, Ohio)

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 camera pushes in closer as he becomes overtaken by emotional pain.

The moment is a microcosm of the uneven drama set in the mid-1990s at an English school for young men with serious behavioral issues that’s landing this week on Netflix not long after its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Adapted from Max Porter’s bestselling 2023 novella, “Shy,” by the author himself, the film is a kinetic and, at times, claustrophobic experience in the hands of director Tim Mielants. Despite terrific performances by Academy Award-winning “Oppe

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