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Marianne Jean-Baptiste In Hard Truths Reminds Us We’re Overlooking Older Black Women’s Mental Health
Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...
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Hard Truths review - a bravura, hyperreal performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste
A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...
Climate warriors need a smarter strategy
Like their MAGA antagonists, progressive climate warriors exist in a political bubble where everyone thinks alike and scorns ...
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Hard Truths is magnificent – the Oscars got it wrong
Marianne Jean-Baptiste deserved to be nominated for her leading role as the prickly, difficult Pansy in Mike Leigh's towering ...