Let’s rephrase the question slightly: Is the idea of watching Cillian Murphy unravel in spectacular, actorly fashion worth navigating a lot of sound and fury signifying next to nothing?

There are a few different movies jockeying for screen time in Steve, the British handwringer that drops on Netflix today, and yet one of them clearly has the best chance of winning its survival-of-the-fittest competition. You’ve got the cluttered social-issues drama set in the mid-1990s, centered around an institution named Stanton Wood that seeks to help at-risk teens and is on the brink of having its funding cut. Our initial entry into this world is through a news crew, who’ve shown up to do a human interest story; to call the intrusive reporter (Priyanga Burford) who asks in a clipped voice whethe

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