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Film Review - Small Things Like These

Film Review - Small Things Like These

Cillian Murphy's understated but haunting performance anchors this quietly powerful adaptation of Claire Keegan's novel

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Nov 09, 2024
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Along with The Magdalene Sisters (2002) and Philomena (2013), Small Things Like These completes what I’m calling my Magdalene Laundries Outrage trilogy. These institutions operated in Ireland until (astonishingly) the late 1990s. They were run by Catholic nuns for “wayward” young women, forced to give up their babies for adoption, and t…

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