Small Things Like These

2024

Action / Drama / History

90
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 93% · 123 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 35670 35.7K

small town husband wife relationship based on novel or book choir flashback ireland

Director

Tim Mielants Photo
Tim Mielants

Top cast

Cillian Murphy Photo
Cillian Murphy as Bill Furlong
Emily Watson Photo
Emily Watson as Sr. Mary
Peter Claffey Photo
Peter Claffey as Barry
Michelle Fairley Photo
Michelle Fairley as Mrs. Wilson
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 23
1.82 GB
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1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BoBo_Goal32 7 / 10

The Brother Magdalene

Cillian Murphy is always a celebration for the large and small screen. This time he travels several decades back, to the eighties in Dublin. He is a coal seller, that keeps his house warm and sells coal for other houses and places to keep them warm in Ireland's cold winter. His five daughters and wife are the apple of his eyes and he would do anything for them.Until...one day he stumbles into a situation in a monastery, which hosts young catholic girls, sometime against their will, that keeps his confused and torn between his will of normality and his conscience. The catholic church is being criticized here in a way that one can easily be reminded with the classis "The Magdalene Sisters".During several segments of the movie the past keeps reminding Bill with his childhood traumas. He is described as a generous and simple guy, that wants only to earn money to keep his family on track with food in their bellies, fire in the fireplace and off course proper education, but he still has great virtues and gentle heart, as far as it goes to other people, that their daily suffering doesn't go unnoticed.It's a slow burner, that is directed with a fine and gentle hand and mindset. It has a lot of criticism, as mentioned, of the church and cynical use of religion to oppress the common folks. On the other side it has a lot of humanity, love and care in it. It feels long, but it is a straight forward film, that catches the essence of the era and state of mind of these days.I haven't felt always the strong connection between the flashbacks to current plot developments, but all helped to better build the protagonist character and to better understands him and his motivation. Murphy's character has been built well, from a script perspective and also thanks to an enormous performance from Murphy himself.
Reviewed by homercles11 7 / 10

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Reviewed by eoinageary 7 / 10

Harsh Reality

Only a glimpse of the harsh reality that is the Magdalene laundries of Ireland.Bill is a working class Irish man. He is married to Eileen and they gave 5 girls at home. Bill works on a coal yard and delivers it to various people. Bill heads to a convent where he becomes unsettled and after more deliveries he becomes more concerned with the happenings of the nuns. Bills dread follows him into Christmas as we get glimpses of his past as we piece together why he is so upset.I think the movie is an important watch, I did think it would have leaned more into the convent side of things and the atrocities that took place but this was Bills story.The whole movie I felt a pain in my chest, wanting him to say something to do something but also knowing the repercussions he and his whole family would face if they dare question the church.The fact that these Hell holes were open til 1998 is a disgrace and embarrassment to this country, and the church, seeing the power nuns and priests believed they were entitled to is infuriating.A good watch, beautiful performances, 7/10.
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