Robert Oppenheimer. “What do I do with it ... once by the British and once by the Church.” Cillian Murphy as Bill Furlong in ‘Small Things Like These’Enda Bowe/Lionsgate What makes Bill’s story so compelling is not that he takes on the Church ...

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 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.