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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.

A key strength of "Small Things Like These" lies in Walsh and Mielants' intelligent translation of Keegan's bare bones style to the screen.

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.

It's subtle but resonant, intimate but emotionally expansive and at every step crisply unsentimental.

Tim Mielants' film is a haunting and meditative work, whose solemn rhythms mark a tantalizing first hour.

[Murphy is] not just the conscience of Belgian director Tim Mielants' delicate, understated film, but its live emotional current.

The acclaimed star delivers a masterclass in silent expressiveness, and he proves the riveting axis around which Tim Mielants' precise and deft feature revolves.

Functions as a reminder that everyone within them has the power to do good-even if it feels inconsequential, and especially if it feels like a risk.

This is a master class in quiet acting, one that's hard to shake once the credits roll.

"Small Things Like These" plays just a little like a gangster film, except the web of power at its center is spun by nuns.

With Cillian Murphy's quiet, almost small and yet grand performance carrying the story every step of the way, "Small Things Like These" is quite possibly the best movie I've seen so far this year.

It is Murphy's sensitive and impeccable performance and Bill's weathered countenance and those small yet significant gestures that make "Small Things Like These" such a quietly major film about extending a helping hand for those in need.

[Murphy's] is a marvel of a performance, extremely expressive and yet deeply inward-looking.

Beautifully written and rewards you for paying attention.

It's a sensitive movie on a worthy subject. In fact, it's so sensitive and worthy that one is reluctant to mention that there's little pleasure in watching it.

The film promotes, in any case, the revaluation of authentic Christian ideals of solidarity and love for one's neighbor... [Full review in Spanish]

I suspect it may be too low-key for people... but it is a film that whispers its story to you and I found it very moving.

It helps that it's based on such an emotionally driven novel-by Claire Keegan-as well as some remarkable and stirring performances.

The film explores the complexities of doing the right thing, the lies we tell ourselves, and the horrors lurking just below the surface.

Intense and somber Irish morality drama.