More than 15 years ago, the great British director Mike Leigh made “Happy-Go-Lucky ... richly developed portraits of his characters, informing the onscreen drama even as certain specificities ...

Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...

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.

‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...

Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...

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

‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh’s impressive ... Outstanding among Peterloo’s portraits is conscripted soldier Joseph ...

flyblown corpses or sewn-up bear carcasses are to be found in writer-director Mike Leigh's newest effort. Instead, it's an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste could earn her second Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths." It's a long time coming for the veteran actress.

Hard Truths takes an astonishingly sensitive approach in telling the story of a bitter housewife.