Cillian Murphy follows up his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer performance with another tour-de-force in Small Things Like These, a drama about Ireland’s horrific Magdalene laundries, whose placid surface conceals roiling anguish and fury.

Cillian Murphy went back to Ireland for his first film after “Oppenheimer.” He stars in and produces “Small Things Like These,” which is based on Claire Keegan's Booker Prize-nominated story about the Magdalene laundries in Ireland.

Cillian Murphy’s career clout has only expanded since being named Oscar’s Best Actor for “Oppenheimer. ” His low-key period Irish drama “Small Things Like These,” opening Friday, couldn’t be more