Hard Truths: A Forceful Marianne Jean-Baptiste Gives 2024’s Best Performance in Terrific Mike Leigh Drama
Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths reunites the legendary British auteur with actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who received an Oscar nod for his searing 1996 drama Secrets and Lies, in which she played the accomplished adult daughter of a downtrodden mother who gave her up at birth. That mother, indelibly…