"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 ...

Before his 2024 film Hard Truths was released, Leigh's most recent film was a historical war drama from 2018. Peterloo stars ...

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

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

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

Mike Leigh calls America 'Trump Land' and worries that the country's population doesn't fully grasp the threat he poses.

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

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

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

You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...

Jean-Baptiste has worked with Leigh off and on since the ‘90s. She wrote parts of the score to one of his earliest films, ...

British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic, working-class London after two successful side trips to the 19th century ...