Mike Leigh's best movies bring the humdrum to rousing, resonant life. His latest is a season by season catalog of encounters between a contented North London couple (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) and their divorced, progressively distraught friend (Leslie Manville). Beneath its deceptively casual surface is an entire world of feeling.
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