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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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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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But that dream came with challenges, and now a lawsuit against American Airlines and a flight training school.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Dec. 2025
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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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Murphy is not acting alone, however, as he’s been assigned to the journey out of a labor camp run by a merciless, tobacco-spitting boss (Russell Crowe) — and some in his merriless band turn out to be savvier, and more malicious, than others.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2026
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But shortly after meeting with Blanche, she was moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Holmes, 41, has two small children and is serving her term at a minimum-security prison camp northwest of Houston.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Firestone visited the Auschwitz concentration camp and met Holocaust survivors during that trip.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently invoked the name of Anne Frank, the Jewish-German teenager who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after hiding with her family from the Gestapo for two years while living in the Netherlands.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 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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