Small Things Like These

"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" 

"Cillian Murphy gives another staggering performance in profound Irish gem (...) Based on Claire Keegan’s novella of the same name, Tim Mielants' film is surprisingly understated and yet still full of dramatic power" 

"Cillian Murphy is superb (...) It’s subtle but resonant, intimate but emotionally expansive and at every step crisply unsentimental" 

"Murphy gives a characteristically tender, interior performance as a man burdened with a conscious even heavier than his considerable knitwear" 

"The at times meticulous realism of Tim Mielant’s film eventually gives way to hokey drama (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" 

"Cillian Murphy anchors chillingly effective religious drama" 

"As the pensive film untangles these questions related to a very specific milieu, the quiet register encourages our own reflections on the very moral concerns time and circumstance have made unavoidable in the present day each and every day"