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’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

Cillian Murphy is "excited" about his first role after 'Oppenheimer', which brought him Oscar-winning success as the wartime hero.

Cillian Murphy went back to Ireland for his first film after “Oppenheimer.” Cillian Murphy didn’t read “Small Things Like These” looking for a film to do. He was simply a fan of the author, Claire Keegan.

A quiet, meditative portrait of a small town's open secret, Small Things Like These sees Cillian Murphy go small, but no less affecting.