“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

With Hard Truths ... a terrified fox looking for a way out of the trap it willingly walked into — that the film's conceit starts to crystallize. In both cases, they are backing away from ...

Just don't expect to watch it twice With Hard Truths ... looking for a way out of the trap it willingly walked into — that the film's conceit starts to crystallize. In both cases, they are ...

Austin) in Hard Truths Hard Truths can also be read as a film in which post-lockdown fears borne of extended social isolation combine with post-austerity fury at the state of the nation. Leigh is open ...