The Village Voice review of Mike Leigh's latest film, "Hard Truths," notes that the improvisational filmmaker again scores smartly.
The human psyche can contain irrational anger, leading to outbursts at strangers for minor offenses. Triggers for this rage ...
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Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...
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.
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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, ...