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 ...

"I'm not too worried about her not being likable, but I was worried about people not having compassion for her." N early 30 ...

The director's latest misanthropic drama, following such films as "Bleak Moments" and "Naked," is a puckeringly sour delight, ...

It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film Hard Truths, starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, in ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...

Hard Truths, from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh, reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne ...

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 ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films. And like with any shared lore, not all of it is true. One misconception, for instance, is that his storytelling is largely improvised ...

Mike Leigh worked as a BBC film director for 12 years during the 1970s and 80s - but he's delivered a damning verdict about ...

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 ...