I n watching Hard Truths, the first film from writer-director Mike Leigh since 2018’s Peterloo, it’s hard not to think of the ...

Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

Baptiste, known for roles in "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Without a Trace," is receiving serious Oscar buzz for her ...

Yet that scene is a miracle precisely for what Jean-Baptiste does with it. The role couldn’t be more different from the ...

Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste ("Secrets & Lies") teams back up with Mike Leigh for a searing new movie about empathy, ...

The human psyche can contain irrational anger, leading to outbursts at strangers for minor offenses. Triggers for this rage ...

In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...

British writer and director Mike Leigh has been nominated many times for Oscars in the United States; his 1996 Secrets and Lies won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s considered one of ...

Pansy is angry and she doesn’t know why. We all have days like that, when we snap at strangers for a minor infraction: The ...

The public is fond of Anderson — she’s a survivor, and a straight-shooter — but as an actress she’s never been taken ...

The Village Voice review of Mike Leigh's latest film, "Hard Truths," notes that the improvisational filmmaker again scores smartly.