In an interview with The Times, Leigh, 81, responded to those questioning whether he had the right, as a white filmmaker, to direct a project featuring an almost entirely Black cast.

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie ... director’s 1971 big-screen debut, “Bleak Moments.” For more than half a century, Leigh has been bringing audiences into the lives and homes ...