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The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.

Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman who suffers no fools, pushing everything around her away, but also confronting deeply-held ...

In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.

Yet that scene is a miracle precisely for what Jean-Baptiste does with it. The role couldn’t be more different from the actress’s Oscar-nominated turn in Leigh’s “Secrets & Lies” (1996), as a graceful ...

Although the big family holiday celebrations are nearly a month in the past, there’s always a need for a new look at sibs, parents, and kids at the movies. This new release is set across the ...

O ne of the best reasons to see a movie in a movie theater is the feeling of laughter in a crowd, the vocal and immediate ...

You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” ...

In his excoriatingly funny new film, the British realist Mike Leigh reunites with a key actor from his 1996 triumph, “Secrets & Lies.” ...

She brings the opposite energy to Hard Truths, her first reunion with Leigh since that Oscar-nominated turn and a towering performance in itself. (American audiences may recognize her from network ...

Chris Brown is taking legal action months after a documentary exploring his alleged history of violence was released. The singer-songwriter sued Warner Bros. Discovery and several others for their ...

His film 'Hard Truths' has faced accusations of cultural appropriation - but he says that shows a misunderstanding of what his work is about ...