Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...

A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Taking our top spot this week however is Mike Leigh’s new comedy-drama, Hard Truths. Starring the ever-incredible Marianne ...

Taking our top spot this week however is Mike Leigh’s new comedy-drama, Hard Truths. Starring the ever-incredible Marianne ...

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

‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...

The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’ ...

Mike Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in "Hard Truths". “Hard Truths” (97 min, Rated R for language and thematic elements) 8 out of 10 Probably unbeknownst to most mainstream moviegoers is auteur British filmmaker ...

Brian Bowe reviews Mike Leigh's latest, Hard Truths, a tragi-comedy character study featuring an incredible turn from ...