NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

the latter of which also features Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The movie is about a woman, Pansy, experiencing depression due to years of bottled-up feelings about grief and pent-up frustration with ...

Look hard — and, in all likelihood, in vain — for a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in ... of a dog wearing a coat or a baby wearing a jacket with pockets ...

I thought of Hortense often while watching “Hard Truths,” Leigh’s blisteringly funny and crushingly sad new movie, in which Jean-Baptiste fumes ... (“What’s a baby got pockets for?

This image released by Bleecker Street shows Marianne Jean-Baptiste, left, and Michele Austin in a scene from "Hard Truths." (Simon Mein/Bleecker Street via AP) Pansy is angry and she doesn’t know why ...

Twenty-eight years after scoring a supporting actress Oscar nomination for 'Secrets and Lies,' the British actress stars in the director's new movie that ... of Jean-Baptiste as Hortense forms ...

While Jean-Baptiste gives a hell of a performance, I was worried for a moment during the first half that she was going to be “on” for the whole movie, like Mikey Madison in Anora (2024).

the way a neighbor’s baby is dressed, etc.) When Pansy ventures outside, she’s at war with the world. As staged by Leigh and played by Jean-Baptiste, run-ins with fellow customers at the ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s lead role in “Hard Truths ... it has not been released in the United States, until now. The Movies We’ve Loved Since 2000: Explore 25 years of our movie coverage ...

This image released by Bleecker Street shows Marianne Jean-Baptiste, left, and Michele Austin in a scene from “Hard Truths.” (Simon Mein/Bleecker Street via AP) Pansy is angry and she doesn ...