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

Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is an impressionistic portrait of scattered lives, a tragicomedy made from the perspective of various members of a Black family slowly rotting in London. It's also a tough ...

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

‘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 ...

Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

After pouring six years into making the indie TV series, the writer/director/star discusses if he’d be open to a Season 2.

The Hollywood Reporter reported the news of the actress’s response first out of a London Q&A on Friday held with Saldaña, who ...

Mike Leigh reunites with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for a terse portrait of a woman with deep anger ...

Hard Truths takes an astonishingly sensitive approach in telling the story of a bitter housewife.