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Small Things Like These
6.6
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203 Ratings

Synopsis

Bill Furlong 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 of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Our take

Cillian Murphy stars in an incendiary adaptation of Claire Keegan’s bestselling novel, from director Tim Mielants and playwright Enda Walsh. As skeletons come tumbling out of the closet, Small Things Like These mounts a fierce reckoning with ecclesiastical abuse and a community’s complicit silence.