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  • 1 h 36 m
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Small Things Like These

Summary It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence...

Directed By: Tim Mielants

Written By: Claire Keegan, Enda Walsh

  • 1 h 36 m
  • 1 h 36 m

Small Things Like These

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence...

Directed By: Tim Mielants

Written By: Claire Keegan, Enda Walsh

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91
Feb 15, 2024
Part of the power of Small Things Like These lies in its Trojan horse nature. This is a political allegory disguised as a character study, a reflection on national guilt and moral complicity, wrapped inside the experiences of one man, in one small town, standing in for the whole of Ireland, and possibly the world.
By Rachel Pronger FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 17, 2024
In this deliberately stunted teasing of information, Mielants builds a muted drama that cleverly harnesses horror tropes to paint a picture of what happens within the convent’s walls.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 15, 2024
With notable patience, Mielants (who directed Murphy in six episodes of Peaky Blinders) allows the darkness to gradually seep in.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 16, 2024
It is an absorbing, committed drama.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2024
It’s a profound performance by Murphy – perhaps even more so in fewer words than Oppenheimer – as Bill’s anger burns with tragic urgency.
By Stephen A. Russell FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2024
It’s Murphy’s exquisitely pained performance, unclenching by fine degrees into something like grace, that gives Small Things Like These its eventual, fist-in-the-gut power, even as the film evades melodramatic confrontation to the last, ending elegantly at a point where many other stories might choose to begin.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2024
Small Things Like Things is a modest gem.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Big Things Films, Wilder Content, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, Artists Equity
Duration 1 h 36 m
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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