Senior Citizen Kane: Small Things Like These

In his first role since his Oscar-winning turn in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy delivers another stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own, forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church. 

There is a pervasive sense of quiet to Small Things Like These and its richly-realised setting which keep us gripped as the film builds to its emotionally powerful climax.