"I'm there to make you care, to move you, to make you laugh, to make you cry…to hopefully improve your lives." Mike Leigh has ...

Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...

Mike Leigh has pushed back against “offensive and racist” criticisms of his latest film, Hard Truths. The film, a humanist ...

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite for Hard Truths, a hilarious heartbreaking look at hate versus acceptance. Read ...

The legendary English filmmaker gushed about Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner during a recording of THR's 'Awards Chatter' ...

(Christina House / Los Angeles Times) There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films. And like with any shared lore, not all of it is true. One misconception, for instance, is that his ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...

And just look at his films!” Complex curmudgeon: Jean-Baptiste, with Michele Austin, in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ (StudioCanal) Jean-Baptiste nails Pansy’s comic rage, but also her ...

The director's latest misanthropic drama, following such films as "Bleak Moments" and "Naked," is a puckeringly sour delight, ...

Surely they don’t dare to suggest he won’t get final say on the screenplay. [ Film-maker Mike Leigh: ‘I’m predictably irritated by box-ticking on political correctness’Opens in new ...

It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film 'Hard Truths,' starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, ...

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how ...