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There is no filmmaker alive who understands the mundanity and quiet grace of the human experience quite like Mike Leigh. Over a decades-spanning career he’s found poetry and pathos in the ...

A star rating of 4 out of 5. The opening scene of Mike Leigh’s latest film Hard Truths sets the tone for this telling familial drama. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is asleep in her bed ...

Hard Truths is a visceral drama centred around a staggering lead performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose Pansy is up there with the very best curmudgeons on screen. Pansy is a woman with ...

Like much of this quietly heartbreaking film, it’s very funny but also pretty bleak. Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has ...

Mike Leigh's newest film is a moving portrait of a troubled woman. Just don't expect to watch it twice With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given ...

With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given the subject matter — no war crimes, flyblown corpses or sewn-up bear carcasses are to be found in ...

The Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships air live this week from Wichita, Kansas, on NBC Sports, USA Network and Peacock. The field includes every national champion from last January: Ilia ...

“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, ...

AMESBURY — From members of the high school hockey team refining their skills to first-time skaters recovering from falls, the recently reopened ice rink at Town Park near Amesbury High’s exit ...