At eighty-one, British filmmaker Mike Leigh has drawn his career to a close with 'Tender Loving Care,' a film that premiered at Telluride and arrived to the kind of critical warmth that suggests an artist who has not retreated from his gifts but deepened them. Across more than fifty years, Leigh built a body of work devoted to the dignity of ordinary lives, and this final film — carried by a widely acclaimed performance from Kate O'Flynn — returns to that same territory: the way love and mortality share a household, and what it means to remain present with the people we cannot keep. It is the