British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said she feels like society is "going backwards in time" after Donald Trump was ...
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
Jean-Baptiste is no stranger to working with Leigh, as she received her breakout role (and first Oscar nomination) for his brilliant drama Secrets & Lies. Although that film required her to play a ...
I n one of the more wide-open Oscar fields in recent history, there were plenty of nominations surprises Thursday. Not too ...
Daniel Craig gave one of his best performances as an American expat in Mexico in the torrid May-December romance in "Queer," but it hasn't been resonating with awards voters. The Oscar snub is the ...
From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.
Columnist Glenn Whipp sounds off on the biggest snubs and surprises of the 2025 Oscar nominations, announced Thursday in Los ...
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 ...
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...
In Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste basically plays my grandmother.
The gym routine was one of the first things to go. Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. And happiness ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...