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A life-size wooden mannequin of a man seated in a dim rural Irish farmhouse.

Oddity: McCarthy's Puppet as Grief

Damian McCarthy's second feature is the best pure-horror indie of 2024, and the clearest argument going for what micro-budget Irish genre cinema can do when it commits to a single effect and doesn't blink.

Marcus Vell·5 Jan·6 min

A man in a dark coat standing outside a stone convent wall at dusk in winter.

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Small Things Like These: Murphy's Quiet Indictment

Tim Mielants's adaptation of the Claire Keegan novella was reviewed as a modest Cillian Murphy vehicle. The careful reading is that the film's restraint is the indictment, and the restraint is harder to film than the indictment would have been.

Lena Ashworth·16 Dec·6 min