‘The Lost Children of Tuam’ Review: Monica Dolan Excels in a Straightforward but Stirring Reflection on a Buried Irish Tragedy

Variety has a new review out for "The Lost Children of Tuam," a drama the outlet calls a straightforward but stirring reflection on a buried Irish tragedy. As Variety tells it, Monica Dolan excels in a restrained but deeply affecting film that keeps the horrors of the past largely unseen. The review places the movie within Ireland's ongoing artistic reckoning with the Catholic Church's mistreatment of unmarried mothers and their children, a subject also explored in "The Magdalene Sisters," "Philomena," and "Small Things Like These."

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