Career Girls is a different kind of Leigh film, not only for the division of its themes but also for the formal ways in which the director balances them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2022

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

It manages to be uninteresting, slight and bleak, while desperately trying to find something to say about the human condition.

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2005

More modest and less involving than Secrets & Lies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2004

Writer/director Mike Leigh has once again assembled an amazing cast to render a spectrum of human emotions beyond the range of most filmmakers' reach.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 9, 2004

A minor work from Mike Leigh, but its simple offhandedness is also its charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002

develops into an insightful meditation on the nature of friendship, as well as a peek into the psyches of two people who think they've dealt with the past but have actually only pushed it aside.

| Jun 23, 2002

A convincing drama about two friends who try to keep their friendship together despite all the obstacles.

| Feb 27, 2002

Not every gift of value comes in fancy packaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2001

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Mike Leigh's films realize that for most people, most days, life consists of the routine of earning a living, broken by fleeting thoughts of where our efforts will someday take us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000