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“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

Ever since the teaser launched back in October 2024, audience’s have been very curious about Drew Hancock’s Companion. Starring Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher, Companion sees... Mike Leigh re-teams ...

Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

Mike Leigh's newest film is a moving portrait of a troubled woman. Just don't expect to watch it twice With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given ...

Mike Leigh, right, writer-director of the film Hard Truths, poses with cast member Marianne Jean-Baptiste during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2024. (Chris Pizzello/Invision ...

“Why can’t you enjoy life?” “I don’t know.” These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, get you right in the heart. And Hard Truths is, ...

“There is nothing as full-bodied, creative, and terrifying as working on a Mike Leigh ... International Film Festival this past fall, Hard Truths was lauded in large part for Leigh’s ...

By David Sexton Mike Leigh’s first feature film ... and the righteous dud Peterloo (2018). Now, at 81, Leigh has returned for a coda in his classic mode. Hard Truths, his shortest, most severe movie, ...

In British filmmaker Mike Leigh’s 1996 domestic drama Secrets & Lies, Timothy Spall delivered a memorable third-act monologue to his family, including the newly resurfaced half-Black daughter ...

But for Pansy Deacon, the protagonist of the writer-director Mike Leigh’s sublime Hard Truths, self-defense is ... seems to have long been drained. The film doesn’t begin gracefully, however ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths Courtesy ... scenes,” says Leigh. “The crew comes and shoots the thing in a classical way in terms of film discipline.” Mike Leigh at the 68th BFI ...