Before his 2024 film Hard Truths was released, Leigh's most recent film was a historical war drama from 2018. Peterloo stars Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, and David Moorst in a large ensemble cast ...

The new film from Mike Leigh proves the 81 year-old is still a master of British realist cinema. The opening scene of Mike ...

A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths, is no exception. After the Victorian settings of Peterloo (2018) and Mr ...

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

hugely disappointing Peterloo (2018) – he returns to more familiar pastures with Hard Truths. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, working with Leigh for the first time since Secrets & Lies bagged her an ...

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.

After a span of period films including Peterloo (2018) and the JMW Turner biopic Mr. Turner (2014), Leigh returns to contemporary London with the dark but often comical Hard Truths. It centers on ...

British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic, working-class London after two successful side trips to the 19th century (2014’s Mr. Turner and 2018’s Peterloo) is titled Hard Truths.

That was considerably ahead of the $151,971 lifetime total through Amazon Studios of his last release, Peterloo, in 2018, and some way ahead of the $109,000 debut of Mr. Turner through Sony ...