In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films ... nothing in Leigh’s work is left to chance. “The idea that you could arrive at ‘Hard Truths’ that way is impossible ...

In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.

With a long production initially delayed by lockdown, Hard Truths is also Leigh’s return to a contemporary domestic setting after the historical dramas Mr Turner (2014) and Peterloo (2018).

Hard Truths is a character study of one of the most acerbic, angry, verbally abusive, and ultimately hurt characters put to film in 2024. But because she is so negative, it is difficult to ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old ... worry that she’s cratering. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste have been nominated for many awards for Hard Truths and won the New York Film Critics Circle ...

By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Leigh’s films have won the top prizes ... why he was very disturbed when Hard Truths was rejected by the Cannes, Venice and Telluride film festivals ...

You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...

From left, David Webber, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Tuwaine Barrett in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh. (Creativity Media/Film Four/Zuma Press/TNS) It takes a moment to realize that you ...