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.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChristina NewlandiNews.co.uk
A nod to a painful part of Irish history, this is a beautiful story of courage in the face of complicity.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreBen 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.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScorePat 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRobert DanielsRogerEbert.com
Tim Mielants’ film is a haunting and meditative work, whose solemn rhythms mark a tantalizing first hour.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePeter 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJonathan 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreXan 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreHarry 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.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJack MartinFilm Feeder
For the stern and powerful drama that it is, though, Small Things Like These is undeniably affective.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAvi 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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