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.

The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.

INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 ...

I’m a sick woman,” says Pansy Deacon, the newest in a long line of demanding heroines on offer from filmmaker Mike Leigh. By the time we hear this in Leigh’s Hard Truths, none of us, neither on-screen ...

Conan O’Brien, A$AP Rocky, and Danielle Macdonald co-star in Mary Bronstein’s audacious anxiety nightmare.

The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie ... According to the actor, who was Oscar nominated for her role as a young optometrist who seeks to locate her birth mother in “Secrets & Lies ...

The members of the film academy voted to honor a few outliers — and overlook a couple of hopeful contenders — at the 97th ...

dirty dishes, a too-young doctor, and the simple act of waking ... Written and directed by Mike Leigh. 97 minutes. Rated R for language. Opens Jan. 16 at multiple theaters.

After living in Philadelphia for nearly 20 years, he and his wife and young son moved to Brattleboro. An avid fan of podcasts (especially ones devoted to film criticism), Moran said he was excited to ...

Look hard — and, in all likelihood, in vain — for a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s ... dirty dishes, a too-young doctor, and the ...