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More thrilling petrolhead action in the Mad Max prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy, plus Michelle Yeoh’s space spin-off is deliciously arch

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned…

Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the look of Tim Burton’s Batman and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, as well as two Harry Potter films

The director’s trademark extemporising extends to touring suburbia to find the perfect setting for his latest production

The American indie director who made his mark with Tangerine and The Florida Project, and whose latest film, Anora, is an Oscars favourite, owes an unlikely debt to British social realists Mike Leigh and Ken Loach

Nicole Kidman takes a younger lover, Tom Cruise accepts his final impossible mission, Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas and Timothée Chalamet belts out some Bob Dylan in the best of the movies coming to UK cinemas next year

If you were to ask a computer programme to come up with a title for a new Mike Leigh film it could do no better than Hard Truths. Echoing the title of his very first film in 1971, Bleak Moments, Hard Truths represents a variation on the veteran British director’s…

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Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.”