While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...

The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's ...

Hard Truths is hard up for a plot. It instead rests on the power of Jean-Baptiste's performance, and the authenticity of the backgrounds she and her surrounding cast represent. The first ...

Mike Leigh, right, writer-director of the film Hard Truths, poses with cast member Marianne Jean-Baptiste during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2024. (Chris Pizzello/Invision ...

“Why can’t you enjoy life?” “I don’t know.” These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, get you right in the heart. And Hard Truths is, ...

But for Pansy Deacon, the protagonist of the writer-director Mike Leigh’s sublime Hard Truths, self-defense is more of a default mode. Played by the excellent Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Pansy is an ...

Now, at 81, Leigh has returned for a coda in his classic mode. Hard Truths, his shortest, most severe movie, is a close-up portrait of a deeply unhappy, intolerably aggressive and contemptuous woman, ...

The data reveals a truth that’s been largely ignored in discussions ... This was always a specious claim, but the 2024 election exposed just how wrong it is and, not just because, as Noah ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths Courtesy of Bleecker Street A ... London Film Festival at The Corinthia Hotel on October 15, 2024 in London, England. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for ...

Another week, another mix of award-chasers and crowd-pleasers at the movies. Here’s what’s new in Milwaukee-area theaters starting Friday, as well as some of the new movies available on ...

And then there was one. HBO set out to chronicle the behind-the-scenes developments of four different teams at once this season with Hard Knocks: In Season With the AFC North, but only the ...

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