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Courtesy of Bleecker Street Every so often, the British writer-director Mike Leigh makes a movie in which the stars — and the tartly casual dramatic scenes — line up, coalescing into a full-on vision of prickly humanity. It happened in “Secrets & Lies” (1996), admittedly a kind of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” for the art-house crowd, though in its neorealist-sitcom way it was a movie that fired on all cylinders. It happened in “Topsy-Turvy” (1999), Leigh’s sublime Gilbert and Sullivan biopic — easily his greatest film, which is quite the irony given that it’s the furthest he ever strayed from his working-class fixations. It happened, too, in “Another Year” (2010), his scaldingly funny riff on the melancholy of middle age.
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