From Cillian Murphy Netflix Hit ‘Steve’ to a Poland 1981 Neo-Noir Thriller With Lesley Manville, a Closer Look at All Toronto’s 10 Platform Titles

Why Cillian Murphy Swapped ‘Oppenheimer’ Bombast for Quiet Drama in ‘Steve’

The Oscar winner reunites with director Tim Mielants for a raw Netflix-backed indie about a teacher on the edge: "These are exactly the sort of stories that I want to tell."

‘Winter of the Crow’ Review: Lesley Manville Goes Jason Bourne in a Richly Atmospheric Soviet Era Thriller

A frosty professor tries to escape 1981 Poland in the richly atmospheric Soviet era thriller 'Winter of the Crow,' starring Lesley Manville.

From Cillian Murphy Netflix Hit ‘Steve’ to a Poland 1981 Neo-Noir Thriller With Lesley Manville, a Closer Look at All Toronto’s 10 Platform Titles

Toronto’s 2025 Platform competition frames some bold movies from directors certainly worth tracking.

TIFF 2025 Review: Steve -“an interesting mix of cinéma vérité documentary style shooting with a hallucinatory drug and alcohol infused imagery.”

The head teacher at a reform school must contend with his own personal demons and public apathy while trying to bring some inner peace and wisdom to his delinquent students. A sedentary life is not possible for Steve as he finds a wayward student in the middle of a field, plays host to a news […]

TIFF 2025: Cillian Murphy's Steve Is A Dour, Dark Delight

The first actor to ever win two consecutive Oscars didn’t exactly break the mould to do so. Spencer Tracy snagged his first trophy for the 1937 sleeper hit Captains Courageous — a Rudyard Kipling adaptation starring Tracy as a questionably accented Portuguese fisherman, forced to care for and educate a belligerent youngster — a youngster who, it turns out, wants and needs nothing more desperately than a velvet-glove father-figure to thrive under…