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  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m

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: Enda Walsh, Claire Keegan

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2024
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 36 m

Small Things Like These

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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: Enda Walsh, Claire Keegan

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 27 Critic Reviews
82
96% Positive
26 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 27 Critic Reviews
82
96% Positive
26 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Nov 8, 2024
Keegan's writing is spare and controlled: she gets a lot done in 116 pages, and Walsh's adaptation captures the suggested interiority of the story.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 7, 2024
It’s an electric, atmospheric, and deeply soulful look at what it means to be human, what it means to have empathy, and how faith should never come before people.
By Emma Kiely 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
Oct 31, 2024
In delicate movements, the miserabilism of Small Things Like These coalesces into a wonderfully understated seasonal catharsis.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 16, 2024
It is an absorbing, committed drama.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2024
Small Things Like Things is a modest gem.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 5, 2024
You’d have to be passionately interested in the details of an Irish small town not to find “Small Things Like These” something of a slog.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
7.3
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22% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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67% Positive
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22% Mixed
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10
Esadupree
Nov 9, 2024
Excellent. Cillian Murphy's post Oppenheimer is a success. Emily Watson is incredible in the screen time she has and leaves us terrified the same way the people of the town feel. A must watch!
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davidlovesfilm
Nov 8, 2024
"Small Things Like These" is a beautiful adaptation of the novel of the same name. This meditative drama has slow pacing but many moments of hard-hitting realities about how a convent's dark secrets affect generations of people in a small Irish community and the trauma that lies beneath with Cillian Murphy giving an empathetic mesmerizing performance.
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Production Company Artists Equity, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, Big Things Films, Wilder Content
Release Date Nov 8, 2024
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/small-things-like-these
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination

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