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Mike Leigh: ‘If you think my film’s about race, you’re the one with the problem’
His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what ...
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
'Hard Truths' Review - Mike Leigh's Newest Movie Features One of the Year's Best Performances
Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite for Hard Truths, a hilarious heartbreaking look at hate versus acceptance. Read on for our review.
British filmmaker Mike Leigh transfixes with his searing new comedy-drama, ‘Hard Truths’
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main ...
‘Awards Chatter’ Pod — Mike Leigh on ‘Hard Truths,’ Mysterious Methods, Theatrical vs. Streaming and Loving ‘Anora’
James Woods has lost his Pacific Palisades home in the Southern California fires that continue to devastate parts of Los Angeles. Speaking on CNN, the 77-year-old “Vampires” and “Once Upon a Time in ...
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MOVIES: New works from Mike Leigh and Steven Soderbergh, plus others that startle or delight
The awards date is March 2 and I review one more contender today, among these: ...
Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy, Too
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.
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Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’
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 ...
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Film offers 'Hard Truths' about why some people are happy — and others are miserable
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...
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Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ Is a Bitter Pill
In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.
This Overlooked 2018 British Historical Drama Sees a Peaceful Protest Turn Into a Bloodbath
Before his 2024 film Hard Truths was released, Leigh's most recent film was a historical war drama from 2018. Peterloo stars ...
Movie review: ‘Hard Truths’ another cinematic gift from filmmaker Mike Leigh
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 ...