His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what ...
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough ...
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...
The awards date is March 2 and I review one more contender today, among these: ...
Before his 2024 film Hard Truths was released, Leigh's most recent film was a historical war drama from 2018. Peterloo stars ...
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.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...
Hard Truths” explores family dynamics through sisters: one angry and fearful, the other loving. Director Mike Leigh teamed up ...
In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.