Small Things Like These12A

Directed by Tim Mielants | Ireland | 2024 | 1h 38m | Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Clare Dunne, Mark McKenna

In 1985, in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland, a coal merchant makes his routine deliveries to a local convent. One morning, he stumbles upon a shocking secret, forcing him to confront both his own past and the silent complicity of a community dominated by the Catholic Church. Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson star in this haunting and emotionally powerful drama adapted from Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated novel.

Reviews

‘I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black. It is an absorbing, committed drama.’
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘Small Things Like These is a tight-lipped Irish drama even more suffused with sadness than the log-line implies, and shouldered with hypnotic grace by a very special Cillian Murphy in his first post-Oppenheimer role.’
★★★★
Tim Robey, The Telegraph

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Wednesday 4 December

3.15pmBook tickets
Monday 9 December

8.30pmBook tickets

What else is on?

Today (Wednesday 4th December)

15:15

Small Things Like These 12A
1h 38m
Cillian Murphy stars as a coal merchant in a small town during the 1980s who uncovers a shocking secret at the heart of his community. Haunting Irish drama adapted from Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated novel.

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17:45

Anora 18
Deaf/HOH Subtitles
2h 19m
A young sex worker and the son of a Russian billionaire go on the run after spontaneously getting married against his father's wishes in Sean Baker's (The Florida Project) freewheeling, Palme d'Or-winning modern romance.

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20:45

Love Actually 15
2h 15m
To me, you are perfect! Ten interwoven stories all build to a grand crescendo on Christmas Eve, proving that love is the common thread driving each of their lives. One-off festive screening presented by Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation.

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Tomorrow (Thursday 5th December)

15:45

No Other Land 15
1h 32m | Arabic & Hebrew w/ English subtitles
Award-winning documentary created by a collective of four young Palestinian-Israeli activists, filmed over five years, examining the displacement and destruction faced by a young Palestinian’s community in the southern West Bank.

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18:00

NT Live: Prima Facie 15
1h 53m
Directed by Justin Martin, this solo tour de force theatre production stars Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) in an Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance. Filmed live during its sold-out 2022 run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.

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20:30

Heretic 15
1h 51m
Two young Mormon missionaries get caught in a sinister game of cat-and-mouse in this delightfully twisted and darkly funny chamber horror from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place), starring Hugh Grant.

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Plan your visit

Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!