| This weekend, the actor Cillian Murphy returns to American movie theatres for the first time since “Oppenheimer,” the big-budget drama for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor, earlier this year. His new movie, “Small Things Like These,” is based on the work of Claire Keegan, an Irish author who tends to take her time between publishing short stories and novellas. The wait is always worth it. In 2010, The New Yorker published “Foster,” Keegan’s tale of a young girl who is brought to live with distant relatives of her mother. Life in her parents’ home had been austere: her father appears to have a gambling problem, and struggles to feed his children; her mother will soon give birth to another. The Kinsellas, the older couple who take the girl in, offer more comfort. In a spare bedroom, the girl finds children’s clothes in the wardrobe, and train-patterned paper on the walls. “There are no secrets in this house,” the woman informs her—a claim that isn’t entirely true. Last year, a moving and faithful adaptation of “Foster,” renamed “The Quiet Girl,” became Ireland’s first-ever Oscar nominee for Best International Feature. Like the story it’s based on, the film is compact, but contains more heart and feeling than most pictures that run twice as long. | 
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