Seven reasons Mike Leigh is one of Britain's greatest filmmakers
Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths: ‘We tend to write off angry women’
Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...
The 50 best shows on Netflix in January 2025
The best shows on Netflix include The Night Agent, NCIS, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Castlevania: Nocturne, American ...
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Onegin at the Royal Opera House: a spectacular blur
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
Hard Truths review: No Oscar nomination for Marianne Jean-Baptiste is criminal
The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...
British filmmaker Mike Leigh transfixes with his searing new comedy-drama, ‘Hard Truths’
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...
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Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘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 ...