Small Things Like These (4.5/10)

Good acting, but super slow and boring. This got insanely high reviews that I don't agree with. I am not the biggest fan of small town dramas in the 1900s that take place in England, Ireland, and Scotland (I know it's very niche). I just find them to be slow paced and boring. "A hard-partying woman receives a startling wake-up call when a visit to the doctor reveals how unhealthy she is. Motivated to lose weight, she soon takes up running to help her prepare for her ultimate goal of competing in the New York City Marathon."Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland's Magdalene laundries -- horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform "fallen young women."