"I'm not too worried about her not being likable, but I was worried about people not having compassion for her." N early 30 ...

Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste ("Secrets & Lies") teams back up with Mike Leigh for a searing new movie about empathy, ...

Mike Leigh and his longtime collaborator Marianne Jean-Baptiste search for answers in their latest tour de force ...

British writer and director Mike Leigh has been nominated many times for Oscars in the United States; his 1996 Secrets and Lies won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s considered one of ...

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 ...

Yet that scene is a miracle precisely for what Jean-Baptiste does with it. The role couldn’t be more different from the ...

The British actor and Mike Leigh have done more than given us another great collaboration. They've gifted us with a masterpiece of bruised humanity.

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 ...

Mike Leigh worked as a BBC film director for 12 years during the 1970s and 80s - but he's delivered a damning verdict about ...

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, in ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...