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Recent Examples of reform school
Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Shy, and twists that story on its axis to be told from reform school headteacher Steve’s point of view.
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Murphy stars as the title character, a head teacher at a reform school for boys.
—Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
From our fall film & TV preview: Max Porter has adapted the screenplay for Steve from his own novella Shy, about the head teacher of a reform school (Cillian Murphy) who finds the walls closing in on all fronts, professional and personal.
—Emily Temple
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher (Cillian Murphy) of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Sep. 2025
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Murphy stars as the title character, a head teacher at a reform school for boys.
—Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
From our fall film & TV preview: Max Porter has adapted the screenplay for Steve from his own novella Shy, about the head teacher of a reform school (Cillian Murphy) who finds the walls closing in on all fronts, professional and personal.
—Emily Temple
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher (Cillian Murphy) of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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The film required an Air Force training school and an air base that still preserved a genuine 1970s aesthetic.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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On this date in 1892, the 13 original rules of basketball were printed in the training school newspaper for the Springfield YMCA.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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In The Weight, Hawke plays Samuel Murphy, who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer played by Russell Crowe.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Feb. 2026
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In one, she was sent to a labor camp after giving birth.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Bale was 12 when Steven Spielberg cast him in the incredibly challenging role of Jim, the son of a wealthy British family who gets separated during World War II and ends up in a Japanese prison camp.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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The resisters were transferred from a prison camp to a more restrictive jail, Tulelake Camp, located more than 10 miles away, said Ron Nakano, with the Marysville JACL, noting that the two camps are distinct but often confused.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Disputes over Israel recently erupted at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, as both Israel’s critics and its defenders claim the Holocaust for their terrain.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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Stop the warehouse conversions to concentration camps.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2026
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The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2025
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Due’s novel follows a 12-year-old boy in the 1950s sentenced to an infamous reformatory where ghosts in the halls tell stories about the boys that have been abused and gone missing there.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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