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, as ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The legendary English filmmaker sat down with THR during a rare trip, taken reluctantly, to Hollywood. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Leigh’s films have won the top prizes of both ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such classics as High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Career Girls, and Mr. Turner says when a journalist meeting him for an interview ...

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 ...

Mike Leigh movies feel like a magic trick. Observational, wry, funny, devastating and always rooted in character, Leigh allows us to take in some of the most fascinating people, the milieu they ...