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.

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

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

Mike Leigh is one of the most prolific living ... the recently departed cinematographer Dick Pope. For a film like Bleak Moments, the title says it all. Leigh’s directorial debut — adapted ...

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