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Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale

Claire Keegan’s acclaimed Magdalene laundries novella reaches the big screen in director Tim Mielant’s atmospheric adaptation

The Guardian - UK

Small Things Like These review: The quiet film that roared

Cillian Murphy's Oscar follow-up is a triumph of subtlety...

WhatToWatch

Eileen Walsh on Small Things Like These: ‘In any religion, it’s the women who’ll be controlled’

INTERVIEW: The actor, who’s starring opposite Cillian Murphy in a new film about the Magdalene laundries and the lasting wound they inflicted on Ireland, tells Ellie Harrison about working with her old friend to bring the traumatic tale to the screen

The Independent UK

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Cillian Murphy: Small Things Like These film tries to stay ‘faithful to book’

The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Evening Standard

Cillian Murphy debuts new hair colour at Small Things Like These UK premiere

On the red carpet, Murphy wore a mustard-coloured jacket, complemented by a khaki shirt

Evening Standard

Before he returns for Netflix's Peaky Blinders movie, Cillian Murphy's new historical drama Small Things Like These looks like it'll make me weep

Cillian Murphy puts on a tear-jerking performance in the new trailer for Small Things Like These ahead of his appearance in the Peaky Blinders movie.

TechRadar

Cillian Murphy delivers a quietly powerful performance in new trailer for his first post-Oppenheimer movie

Small Things Like These hits cinemas in November

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Small Things Like These: release date, reviews, trailer, cast and everything we know about the Cillian Murphy drama

Coming off his Oscar win, Cillian Murphy is again being praised for his performance in Small Things Like These. Here's what you need to know.

WhatToWatch

Belgium director Tim Mielants discusses his new film Small Things Like These at Berlinale premiere

Tim Mielants, director of Small Things Like These, discusses the film's themes of grief and moral courage, and the unique portrayal of masculinity onscreen.

Top News

Bridget Jones, Santaland Diaries and A Christmas Carol: 25 literary treats to read this December

From David Sedaris’s comic diaries to Maya Angelou’s poem Amazing Peace, count down to Christmas with our Advent calendar of festive reads

The Guardian - UK

The Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: a reading guide

A blistering critique of White America, a devastating novella set in Ireland, and a Zimbabwean Animal Farm for the 21st century are among the novels vying for the prestigious literary award.

ABC News

Summer reading: the 30 best holiday reads – chosen by authors and critics

Novelists including Johny Pitts, Monica Ali and Nina Stibbe – plus Observer critics – on their essential holiday books

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