In Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy gives a masterclass performance in subtlety and nuance. It is a towering performance of great restraint that conveys quite powerfully what it is like to be trapped inside your own silence. Murphy's character, Bill Furlong, is a coal merchant working in and around the Irish town of New Ross in the mid-1980s. We immediately sense that he is a fundamentally decent man, one who works hard and treats others fairly. There is nothing spectacular or particularly notable about his life. He delivers bags of coal in the frigid winter temperatures to ... Read More