Small Things Like These

critic Reviews

, 89% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Cillian Murphy's outstanding acting anchors Small Things Like These, elevating an occasionally enervating historical drama.
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    Christina NewlandiNews.co.uk
    A nod to a painful part of Irish history, this is a beautiful story of courage in the face of complicity.
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    Ben CrollTheWrap
    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.
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    Pat BrownSlant Magazine
    The moral schema of the film ends up having all the clarity of melodrama, with our suffering hero cast against a practically snarling villain that almost defies reality.
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    Robert DanielsRogerEbert.com
    Tim Mielants’ film is a haunting and meditative work, whose solemn rhythms mark a tantalizing first hour.
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    Peter BradshawGuardian
    I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black. It is an absorbing, committed drama.
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    Jonathan RomneyScreen International
    Subtly, Murphy limns the emotional make-up of a life that combines success and domestic contentment on one hand with, on the other, everyday disappointment and unhealed childhood scars.
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    Xan BrooksObserver (UK)
    Mielants and Walsh pace their Samaritan tale to perfection, which is to say that Small Things Like These plays out as a halting study in human decency, taking the high road in hesitant steps.
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    Harry GuerinRTÉ (Ireland)
    In front of and behind the camera, everyone shines here, but most important of all, they do justice to all the stories that have informed this one. Don't miss it.
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    Jack MartinFilm Feeder
    For the stern and powerful drama that it is, though, Small Things Like These is undeniably affective.
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    Avi OfferNYC Movie Guru
    Quietly moving, but not unflinching or profound enough to pack an emotional wallop. The film's poignancy comes more from the performances by Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson and, especially, Eileen Walsh, than from the shallow screenplay.
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