Adapted from the 2021 novel by Claire Keegan, the movie looks into the life of Bill Furlong, a coal merchant living in Wexford, Ireland working hard to provide for his wife and children. In the run-up ...

Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal man working in a small town in Ireland. It’s 1985, and he’s breaking his back hauling coal ...

Small Things Like These' is a story that takes on the age-old question: If you see a wrong, are you willing to step up and ...

Tim Mielants sees a close connection between his native Belgium and Ireland, the setting of his new film, Small Things […] ...

Murphy devastating in year’s best Small Things Though is seems more pressing now than usual, the question regarding adhering ...

Directed by Tim Mielants, with a screenplay by Enda Walsh, Small Things Like These is based on the 2021 historical fiction ...

Overall, Small Things Like These is a thoughtful, slow-burning and memorable portrayal of a traumatic episode in Ireland’s ...

In “Small Things Like These,” Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) is a coal merchant who slowly uncovers the mistreatment of girls in a local Catholic school governed by nuns. The 1980s film ...

There’s much to note and commend about Small Things Like These, a sensitive, gorgeously shot and moving adaptation of Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel, about one man’s stand against the evils of ...

CHICAGO – One of the best elements of the Chicago International Film Festival ( CIFF) is how the world comes to the fest to present their films. One such presenter was director Tim Mielants, whose ...

The film is based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker-shortlisted story and tells the story of a Wexford man, coal merchant Bill Furlong, who uncovers a terrible scene at the local Magdalene Laundry ...

Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant with five daughters, all of whom he expects to attend St Margaret’s, the only good Catholic school in the area. Oppressively, it’s next door to a ...