I asked a group of film-lovers a question recently: what's a movie you adored but never, ever want to watch again? With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising ...

We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months ... and she does everything she can to break through to Pansy. In the movie's most affecting scene, Chantelle drags ...

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 pond and ...

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 ...

Hard Truths, a drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024, and was released in U.S. theaters on December 6 ...

Instead, the film's skin-crawling explication of emotional self-immolation basically amounts to a horror movie, or something closer to medicine. Again, the "hard truth" (get it?) is that there can ...

Leigh's new movie, Hard Truths, could have been titled Unhappy-Go-Lucky. It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in ...

Like nearly all Leigh's films, Hard Truths emerged from a rigorous months-long workshop ... and she does everything she can to break through to Pansy. In the movie's most affecting scene, Chantelle ...