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Hard Truths review – Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s blistering performance is the angry heart of Mike Leigh’s drama

Playing a raging but inwardly terrified housewife, the actor and a fine supporting cast are the intense focus of a story that cries out for closure

The Guardian - UK

Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry

4/5 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’

The Independent UK

Hard Truths review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama

4/5 Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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The One Show is the most unapologetically weird programme on the BBC

IN FOCUS: On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light entertainment show should be one of the broadcaster’s most tedious programmes – but its jarring tonal shifts and random guest list often make for brilliantly bizarre viewing. Katie Rosseinsky explores the endearingly strange appeal of ‘The One Show’

The Independent UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste decries lack of great roles for black women

Oscar-nominated actor says she has had to compromise because of dearth of complex roles in UK and Hollywood

The Guardian - UK

Emilia Pérez, The Substance lead Oscar nominations for women

A movie about a trans cartel leader and a body horror about pressures on women to stay young resonated with Academy voters.

Fortune

Marianne Jean-Baptiste on changes in US: It feels like going backwards in time

The London-born actress, who has been living in America for many years, said she hopes that ‘good will overcome and will unite people’.

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Demi Moore leads big Oscar nom surprises

A history-making nomination. A nod that will get Trump riled up. A film no one can agree on. Yep, it's Oscar season

Salon

Oscar nominations snubs and surprises, from Daniel Craig to Selena Gomez

The film academy had plenty of surprise nominations Thursday for the 97th Oscars

The Independent UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned…

The Independent UK

Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington shut out

Acting shortlists are dominated by newcomers to the exclusion of industry veterans, but The Substance’s Coralie Fargeat is the only female director in shortlist of six

The Guardian - UK

Conclave, Emilia Perez and The Brutalist lead Bafta film nominations

Ralph Fiennes and Demi Moore are nominated in the leading acting categories.

The Independent UK

And the winner should be… Observer critics choose their alternative Oscars for 2025

Before the Academy Award nominations are announced on Sunday, Observer critics name their standout movies, performances, directors and more

The Guardian - UK

Mike Leigh hits out at ‘offensive and racist’ criticisms of latest film

Award-winning drama features a mostly Black cast

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Salon

"Hard Truths" confronts an angry world

Mike Leigh and his longtime collaborator Marianne Jean-Baptiste search for answers in their latest tour de force

Marie Claire

The Best Drama Movies to Look Forward to in 2025

We're already marking our calendars for these highly-anticipated dramas coming soon.

The Guardian - UK

Clues, improvisation and anti-pigeon devices – the vision behind Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths

The director’s trademark extemporising extends to touring suburbia to find the perfect setting for his latest production

The Guardian - US

Golden Globes 2025: who will win and who should win the film awards?

Without clear frontrunners, this weekend’s awards ceremony could offer a string of surprises. Will it be Wicked or Emilia Pérez? The Brutalist or Conclave?

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The Independent UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste tests our limits of empathy in 'Hard Truths'

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.”

The Guardian - US

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 5 – Hard Truths

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives an immense, acidic performance as Pansy, a woman on the edge, in Mike Leigh’s strange, morbid miracle of a film

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Golden Globes Nominations: Snubs And Surprises

Explore the snubs and surprises of the Golden Globes nominations, from overlooked performances to unexpected nods.

The Independent UK

Golden Globes: The snubs and surprises in the 2025 nominations

The Golden Globes nominated more than 40 individual films Monday and yet still managed to overlook quite a bit

The Guardian - UK

Irish rap comedy Kneecap tops British independent film awards

Director Rich Peppiatt said ‘there is an irony in the best British film being Irish’ as his Belfast-set film won seven prizes in total

The Guardian - UK

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on rage, sex and insults: ‘There’s an intolerance in society now’

The director and actor talk about identifying with the angry lead in their new film Hard Truths – and why it took Netflix less than a minute to turn the movie down

The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode on… director Mike Leigh, who mines the comedy and tragedy of life

From Nuts in May to Vera Drake and the forthcoming Hard Truths, Leigh’s unique creative process gives us perfectly crafted dramas and characters who feel real

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