A number of new movies and limited television series will debut this week, including the following titles opening in theaters ...
In partnership with his actors, Leigh excavates and displays the most vulnerable emotions and experiences a person can have, his films slowly building to cathartic crescendos, with glimmers of hope ...
Mike Leigh’s latest comedy-drama considers what it’s like to live a life entirely of grievance.
A team of sports broadcasters pulled into a life-or-death hostage crisis. A fast-livin’ Brit singer portrayed as a chimp. An ...
The latest film releases include Hard Truths, Vermiglio, Diane Warren: Relentless, and The Last Showgirl. Weighing in are William Bibbiani, film critic for the Wrap and co-host of the Critically ...
To say that the British actor and director Mike Leigh have given us their best collaboration to date is too mild a sentiment.
Hard Truths” — 3.5 stars Pansy is angry and she doesn’t know why. We all have days like that, when we snap at strangers for a ...
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, ...
Mike Leigh, left, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste attend the New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Tao Downtown on Wednesday, Jan ...
Mike Leigh movies feel like a magic trick. Observational, wry, funny, devastating and always rooted in character, Leigh allows us to take in some of the most fascinating people, the milieu they ...
Without being influenced by the Golden Globe winners, here’s Variety's guess as to where the Oscar race seems to stand.