Hard Truths is now out in cinemas, and here's how Mike Leigh's new movie explores depression in a relatable and original way.

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

It seems to just … end. But “Hard Truths” isn’t a movie that’s going to give easy answers or wrap things in a bow. The last twenty minutes or so of “Hard Truths” stops being about ...

We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to ...

Leigh's new movie, Hard Truths, could have been titled Unhappy-Go-Lucky. It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in ...

Instead, the film's skin-crawling explication of emotional self-immolation basically amounts to a horror movie, or something closer to medicine. Again, the "hard truth" (get it?) is that there can ...

‘Hard Truths’ sees Leigh in humane ... Which is not to say his movies are ever ugly or boring. Jean-Baptiste comes in like a wrecking ball here, Pansy possibly the most ironically-named ...

Hard Truths, a drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024, and was released in U.S. theaters on December 6 ...

Also new in Milwaukee movie theaters starting Jan. 24: "All We Imagine As Light," "Presence," "Brave the Dark," "Inheritance" and more.

I asked a group of film-lovers a question recently: what's a movie you adored but never, ever want to watch again? With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months-long workshop ... and she does everything she can to break through to Pansy. In the movie's most affecting scene, Chantelle ...